Word: smith
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...Errol Smith, chief executive officer of Smith Friday Enterprises and vice chair of the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), the California state referendum that repealed affirmative action programs in state hiring and university admissions, shared some of Zelnick's criticisms...
...Smith, who is African American, said he opposed racial preferences, in large part because they create feelings of inferiority among minorities and the "lingering presumption" that they are less competent than whites...
Racial-preference programs, Smith asserted, not only make blacks and other minorities defensive in justifying their successes, but also contribute to the "Balkanization" and fragmentation of American society along racial lines. He lamented what he described as the loss of a coherent, unified sense of what it means to be American...
Already, Transportation Services has made significant changes this year, said Jeffrey Smith, former director of Transportation Services...
Since last May there have been 35 adjustments in shuttle bus scheduling, the addition of one more large Bluebird bus and the replacement of three of the five smaller buses with sleeker, handicapped-accessible shuttles, said Smith...