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...cases, there are just white males in the government, but all the women are welfare recipients.” To combat just that sort of subtle discrimination, a student group has recommended a mandatory day-long seminar for faculty on “institutional racism and sexism.” We urge the school to adopt this suggestion—and one that it hire a full-time recruiter for minority students. Each time students have made requests, administrators have replied that they sympathize with the suggestions but that “financial considerations” make implementation impossible. Coming...
...gained from hard experience. Klein may not share their politics, but he still owes them respect. Adele Batchelder Rocky Hill, New Jersey, U.S. The Sponsorship Circus Thank you for your revealing article on the ferocious advertising battle between Nike and Adidas during soccer's World Cup [May 22]. While racism may be a big problem for the sport - and every possible measure must be taken to remove that evil - soccer's biggest problem is the overcommercialization detailed in the article. For many true fans, the billions of dollars the sport has accepted from sponsors has turned soccer into a circus...
Graduating seniors from TWCO assembled an emergency press conference later in the day, lobbying for a student-run center to serve the needs of minorities and to recruit more minority students and faculty to the University as a solution to Harvard’s “institutional racism,” the Harvard Magazine reported...
...should we assume this urge to withdraw is only a conservative tactic. In the state of Nebraska, the only black member of the state legislature is Ernie Chambers. Ernie is so liberal that a colleague in the legislature said, ?Ernie sees racism when he pours his breakfast cereal.? But Ernie Chambers recently pushed through a new bill that carves Omaha?s school district into three-a black district, a white district, and a Hispanic district. He thinks this will protect black schools from being cheated of their fair share of bond proceeds. He also says black families should decide what...
...concussion - German police released a national report documenting a sharp increase in the number of crimes committed by far-right groups over the past year. And this comes after a dire "no go" warning, issued earlier this month by a former government spokesman who now heads an anti-racism advocacy group, that if people "with different color skin" travel to parts of eastern Germany, "they may not come out alive...