Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...person -- indeed, no modern historian of any race -- could read such bland dismissals without disgust. The question is, How to correct the record? Only by more knowledge. Toynbee was writing more than 50 years ago, but in the past 20 years, immense strides have been made in the historical scholarship of both Africa and African America. But the upwelling of research, the growth of Black Studies programs, and all that goes with the long-needed expansion of the field seem fated to be plagued by movements like Afrocentrism, just as there are always cranks nattering about flying saucers...
Still, leaders from groups who argue that the University should stop accepting ROTC scholarship funds say the program is an affront to all homosexuals in the Harvard community...
...possibility of a vocal response that has many ROTC students concerned about the future. The students fear that the fiery rhetoric over scholarship money and gay rights will overshadow the value of a military training program...
Opponents also say the policy hurts gays and lesbians seeking scholarship funds. The military has recently been waging a public battle to reclaim money and tuition reimbursements from homosexual students...
Given that the struggle was precisely about scholarship and the language of scholarship, it is no wonder that the campus newspaper would seek to discuss the issue and it is no wonder that Thernstrom might feel threatened. Yet in the aftermath of his attacks on The Crimson, the effect of shouting "p.c." has been less speech and not more; it has forced students into silence, and merely amplified the professorial bully pulpit that the professor, by profession, already possessed...