Word: racially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Part of the organized Freshman Week activities, the panel touched on issues such as coping with racial insensitivity, finding a niche at Harvard as a minority student, avoiding isolation of minority students from the community as a whole, and dealing with resentment on campus and alienation from old friends...
...York Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the new chairman of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, says that improving racial diversity within the industry, and particularly within management, is one of the top items on his agenda. "I think it is absolutely essential that we do better," he says. Most other publishers agree. Nearly 100 news organizations were represented at the N.A.B.J. job fair, where a blizzard of minority resumes were traded. But for skeptics who have seen it all before, the proof is not in the prospecting but in the follow-up. Says Monte Trammer, the first black publisher...
...friends can be especially hard for minority students, gays, foreign students and others who do not quite fit the model of Gidget Goes to College. Some campus officials are alarmed by the growing evidence of racism among today's students. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst became infamous for racial tension when an October 1986 brawl injured ten students. Now U. Mass.-Amherst freshmen are shown a video about racism and abusive behavior, and this fall's new students' convocation will include remarks concerning the "celebration of differences...
...academic experience, MacLaughlin proved unable to mediate a dispute between divestment activists and their opponents on a campus conservative journal. Some members of the Dartmouth Review razed the shanties erected by the anti-aparthied activists shortly before the school's Winter Carnival. The result was an increase in campus racial tensions and a crisis in confidence that led one professor to say at a faculty meeting that MacLaughlin had made Dartmouth "the laughingstock of the Ivy League...
...many Japanese, the first exposure to blacks came during the post-World War II occupation, when they saw U.S. soldiers housed in segregated barracks. Others picked up racial attitudes and stereotypes -- such as Little Black Sambo -- from U.S. television, movies and books, or American acquaintances. "I experience racism daily," says Robert Jefferson, a black radio correspondent for ABC News in Tokyo. Jefferson says Japanese avoid sitting next to him on trains or taking the same elevator...