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Word: separatist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administration now bandies about the term "separatist" with the abandon of a high school sophomore flaunting a new vocabulary word. Two years ago, it killed the hope of a Third World Center with the same "separatism" charge. When the University's Games Report rejected a Third World Center in 1980, in favor of the more amorphously structured Foundation, it specifically expressed a fear that a center would lead to separatism and territoriality...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: The Other Side of Paradise | 10/12/1982 | See Source »

This Freshman Week idealism even filters down, inexplicably enough, to purely cultural events. The Foundation, an administrative entity independent of the FDO, was reportedly barred from using the term "Third World" in its "Evening of Third World Culture" held during Freshman Week. Instead, to obliterate any possible separatist overtones, the event was cheerfully retailed "An Evening of Song and Dance...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: The Other Side of Paradise | 10/12/1982 | See Source »

...League would uphold a tradition of cooperating with only two national college guides, one published by the College Board and one by a private firm. He also criticized the research techniques of the Brown group and charged that questionnaires for administrators and students were based on "segregationist and separatist assumptions that special, separate services and organizations of Black students are good and that an institution that does not provide its own minority students or potential applicants a full list of racially segregated activities is not quite on track...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/17/1982 | See Source »

...July 27 letter to Fox, Beckham took issue with the College's concerns, writing. "Without meaning to sound cynical, I must say that it is often exasperating to discover that whenever Black people decided to do something for themselves, those efforts are termed segregationist and separatist.. To be quite honest, Black students' primary considerations have to do with their chances for psychological as well as academic survival, and those chances are usually linked directly to the college's commitment to the special needs Black students bring to the campus...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: A Textbook Case of Mismanagement | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...League would uphold a tradition of cooperating with only two national college guides, one published by the College Board and one by a private firm. He also criticized the research techniques of the Brown group and charged that questionnaires for administrators and students were based on "segregationist and separatist assumptions...that special, separate services and organizations of Black students are good and that an institution that does not provide its own minority students of potential applicants a full list of racially segregated activities is not quite on track...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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