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Within the Kirkland coalition, the phalanxes of the National Wildlife Federation rub elbows with those of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Association for the Advancement of Psychology, the Center for Community Change, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. Then, too, there is the Food Research and Action Center, whose troops tramped up to the Hill to protest the proposed food-stamp cuts. FRAC, employing 25 lawyers, technicians and persuaders, gets two-thirds of its million-dollar budget from the Federal Government it is now attacking. Uncle Sam is once again caught beating...
Because of the stigma attached to having dark skin, a black black woman had to do many things to find a place for herself. One possibility was to attach herself to a light-skinned woman, hoping that some of the magic would rub off on her. A second was to make herself sexually available, hoping thereby to attract a mate. Third, she could resign herself to a more chaste life-style-either (for the professional woman) teaching and work in established churches or (for the uneducated woman) domestic work and zealous service in "holy and sanctified" churches...
...crime: racketeering. The verdict: guilty. The sentence? There was the rub. The judge imposed ten years in prison, but federal prosecutors in Rochester wanted the mobster put away for a period closer to the 34-year maximum...
Lydia Rios and Walter Clair '77, both fourth-year students, said a lack of role models on the faculty is another important reason students might be deterred from seeking faculty careers. "Role models rub off on you. A minority student sees the things a white role model is doing and says, "I want to teach,' but, as a minority, he may be discouraged from this," Clair says. He adds, however, that despite the obstacles a minority student faces in deciding to pursue an academic career, the problem does not lie only in getting students to do this. Clair does...
...goals led the squad last year. Olson picked up the team's only hat trick in the 6-6 tie against Yale, and scored twice in a game three other times. Small, but fast, tought and willing to dig, Cleary says, "Hopefully his scoring touch will rub off on others...