Word: racial
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...hundreds of applicants” this year, though she said she has yet to obtain a concrete number.NOT JUST NUMBERSBut Boes said tutor selection can never be just a matter of numbers. Though the undergraduates, tutors, and House administrators active in tutor selection try to make diverse racial and sexual orientation a “number-one” consideration in the hiring process, Boes said, they are often constrained by the needs of individual Houses.“Where we have flexibility, race and sexual orientation are a priority. But the more important question is, Where do the tutors...
...ramifications are immense and doing this without a plan in place is very dangerous." - Opposing a proposal to have police officers to fill out forms every time they pull a motorist over, intended to identify incidents of racial profiling. The lack of a system to analyze the data, Kerlikowske maintained, would make it is easy to manipulate it to be used against police. Seattle Times, June...
...first black president settles into the Oval Office, it seems an odd time for Georgia to be up in arms over school integration again. In 1961, when a federal court ordered the University of Georgia to admit two black students, 1,000 white rioters hurled firecrackers, bricks and racial epithets through dorm windows. But 1961 this is not: today a white Republican is leading the charge, and black students and lawmakers are fighting for the status...
...working under the CEO. The two were raised one block away from each other in Hyde Park. “He grew up in the unlikely scenario,” says Wilkins, “of a kid from a solid middle class background going across the very real racial lines of Chicago to tutor kids eight blocks from where he lived...
...first of many Mellinger would obey. He started his military career as a clerk in what was then called West Germany, and was looking forward hanging up his uniform after two years of service. "I was dead-set on getting out," he says. "We had a lot of racial problems, drug problems, leadership problems." But his company commander talked him into re-enlisting. The lure: the chance to join the Rangers, the elite warrior corps that Mellinger came to love (his 3,700 parachute jumps add up to more than 33 hours in freefall). Re-enlisting "was the best decision...