Word: socio
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...addition to its ethnic and national diversity, Rindge's student body also includes students from a broad range of socio-economic backgrounds. Giroux says that 48 percent of Rindge and Latin students qualify for federal free and reduced-price lunches...
...study the readings, unconsciously presenting an "us vs. them" attitude which ignores Harvard's much-touted respect for diversity. Students generally refer to the characters in the stories and the subjects of the nonfiction books as "those people," a disconcerting phrase that emphasizes the distance between different ethnic and socio-economic groups. This makes those students who don't fit into the white middle class very uncomfortable...
Founders of the fraternity have repeatedly said they will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion or socio-economic status. According to colony president Jonathan L. Brisman '90, the fraternity plans to mail pledge cards to every first-year male--an action which should eventually speak louder than words...
Richard M. Geyser '90-'91, a member of the group, said that although Sigma Alpha Mu has been traditionally a Jewish fraternity, the group will be non-sectarian and will not discriminate on the base of race, religion or socio-economic status...
...should increase its efforts to recruit more from each group. The situation differs, however, between minority and female faculty and among the several minority groups. For American Blacks, more than the other groups, there is a contemporary residue of past discrimination that is manifested in on-going socio-economic disadvantage....For women, the main problem is the residue of past discrimination, as well as continuing, often implicit, prejudice and disadvantages in career opportunities...