Word: segregationism
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Bulletins from the battlegrounds where race and politics collide more often resemble the one from Chicago than the one coming from Virginia. As the racially divided voting in the Windy City demonstrated, American elections all too often remain a matter of black and white. Virginia, once a bastion of segregation...
Duke certainly has enormous problems with racism and sexism. Perhaps reforming the housing system, which allows students freedom in deciding with whom they will live, would help. But, as Mr. Larew himself implies, surely segregation causes bigotry by fostering ignorance. Ironically, Mr. Larew has done what college students all over...
But despite Branion's apologia for Duke's fraternities, I cannot believe that allowing virtual residential segregation on campus helps broaden the intellectual horizons of the fraternity members. The diversity of the student body is wasted when the snooty whites can band into incestuous, insulated fraternities.
Earlier this year, HUDS drew criticism from Assistant Dean for Race Relations and Minority Affairs Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle over a "'50s Night" it staged. Hernandez-Gravelle said flyers for the event, which described the 1950s as a carefree era, were offensive because of their unconscious insensitivity to segregation and racial...
As a minority and a member of the Executive Board of the Black Students Association (BSA), I took great offense to the article by Albert Hsia on what he perceived to be the self-segregation of minority groups.