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According to Freeman. College policy in the late 1970s shifted from encouraging community spirit among minorities on campus to instead condemning "separatist" structures...
...LONG WRANGLE last spring over minority orientation events during freshman week raised substantial questions about the college's policy on minority relations. Once a cosponsor of these activities, Harvard withdrew its support two years ago, calling the events "separatist" and leaving minority student organizers without official publicity or funding for their programs. Although most recent discussion has focused on whether to list the events in the official freshman week calendar further review should turn to the possibility of active College endorsement: minority student groups are hard pressed to bear the burden singlehandedly of organizing these valuable activities. Harvard College, which...
...LONG WRANGLE last spring over minority orientation events during freshman week raised substantial questions about the college's policy on minority relations. Once a cosponsor of these activities. Harvard withdrew its support two years ago, calling the events "separatist" and leaving minority student organizers without official publicity or funding for their programs. Although most recent discussion has focused on whether to list the events in the official freshman week calendar further review should turn to the possibility of active College endorsement; minority student groups are hard pressed to bear the burden singlehandedly of organizing these valuable activities. Harvard College, which...
President Junius R. ("J.R.") Jayawardene, 76, has tried to mollify moderate Tamils by offering them jobs, encouraging them to use their own language and delegating some local responsibility to them. But Jayawardene had also ordered his troops to stamp out the separatists by force and, according to an Amnesty International report, had sent Tamils to prisons in which they have been brutally tortured. Forced in May to invoke the fifth state of emergency since Jayawardene took office in 1977, the Sri Lankan government last Saturday proposed a constitutional amendment that would ban the secessionist party, as well as all separatist...
...above all, living proof that after only five years of self-conscious democracy, Spain can elect a Socialist government without a national upheaval or a military coup. Holding a solid majority in both houses of the Cortes, the Socialists have moreover steered a reassuringly moderate course in economic policy. Separatist Basque terrorism remains a serious problem but appears to be on the decline...