Word: segregationism
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Torn Over Religions Re Alex Perry's report on the tensions between India's Hindus and Muslims [Aug. 11]: I would note that India's majority Hindus and the government are not entirely responsible for the Muslims' troubles. Various Muslim organizations receive funding from abroad to promote segregation, fundamentalism and...
DIED. STROM THURMOND, 100, oldest and longest-serving Senator in U.S. history; in Edgefield, South Carolina. In a political career that spanned seven decades, Thurmond ran unsuccessfully for President in 1948, won eight terms in the Senate, and held the record for the longest speech on the Senate floor?24...
My involvement with The Harvard Crimson in the last four years has caused sobering realizations about the continued existence of racial self-segregation on campus. Despite tremendous and strenuous outreach efforts, The Crimson as a whole has remained a mostly homogenous organization, with few minorities, especially black students, ever showing...
But the problems at The Crimson are not unique, and will only abate as part of a long-term change in culture away from self-segregation at Harvard.
Despite the individual interactions that occur across racial boundaries, an overarching trend towards racial self-segregation does plague our campus. Even within the bubble of diversity that Harvard has created here, many students have not fully embraced the carefully-constructed opportunity to gain real understanding from those different from themselves...