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This week, as freshmen receive housing assignments, The Crimson will take a closer look at the ways in which racial and ethnic divides have been transcended in the decade since randomization—and the ways in which they haven?...
...says, "the Muslim Matador that people speak of - he is another person, not me. I'm French." French or Spanish, Muslim or Christian, it doesn't seem that the bullfighting fraternity cares. Like the NBA in the U.S, bullfighting is a world of its own, in which racial and ethnic barriers dissolve in the face of talent. Once a near sacred practice in the Catholic, ethnically homogenous world of Old Spain, bullfighting is still revered in today's plural society. Savalli could be a poster boy for that pluralism, for rather than challenge Spain's grand bullfighting traditions, he seems...
...this dilemma altogether. Massachusetts could amend its tax laws to revoke the favored tax status of private organizations incorporated under state law that discriminate based on sexual orientation. The federal tax code already provides for the revocation of favored tax treatment of otherwise tax-exempt private schools that practice racial discrimination, even for religious reasons. The Supreme Court, in Bob Jones University v. United States (1982), upheld the constitutionality of this provision against claims that it violates the First Amendment guarantee of religious freedom, noting that eradicating discrimination is a fundamental government interest and that mere revocation of special...
...made St. Louis a significant threat to the newly seceded Confederacy.For those of you who haven’t been reading the news, the Civil War ended a few years ago. But the question of who controls the St. Louis Police Department still hinges largely on racial concerns. The Aldermen who pushed through the civilian review board legislation were mostly black, while the governor who appoints the state police commission is a white Republican who was elected, as so many white Republicans, with very few black votes. In the post-civil rights movement era, I would like to think that...
...night in Dudley House. Since the College does not record ethnic identity in its alumni files, the group followed this strategy which was first employed by the Black Students Association to build its own invitation list, according to AAA members. “We don’t keep racial tags in our database,” said Hoopes Wampler, director of College alumni programs at the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The reunion, hosted by AAA and cosponsored by 11 other Asian-oriented organizations on campus, was packed with 125 students and alumni—surpassing the target...