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...announced that the school had decided against creating a separate Chicano studies department. No other ethnic group had its own department, a university task force on the subject noted, and there was not enough academic substance to justify adding that one. Within days, however, 300 students -- equivalent to a tenth of the school's Chicanos and about 1% of total enrollment -- staged a protest that escalated into a window- breaking skirmish with police. Next came a hunger strike by five students and one faculty member. In June UCLA backed down, creating the Cesar Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana...
MOSCOW: Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, claiming that 40% of crimes in the capital are committed by people from former Soviet republics, ordered them to register with the police and pay a daily levy of 800 rubles, about 66 U.S. cents but equal to one-tenth of the Russian minimum monthly wage. Those who fail to register and pay will be fined as much as 500,000 rubles and deported. A widespread animosity was displayed by many Muscovites. "Those buggers are so packed with dough that these fines won't stop them," said one local worker...
...Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute and Du Bois' principal rival for the souls of black folk. "The Great Accommodator," as Washington was known, stressed vocational training as the road to progress. Aim higher, was Du Bois' response, especially meant for the ears of those he called "the talented tenth," men and women like himself...
...Harvard Mozart Society will celebrate its tenth anniversary tonight with a concert at Sanders Theater, marking a decade of dramatic change...
...Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute and Du Bois' principal rival for the souls of black folk. "The Great Accommodator," as Washington was known, stressed vocational training as the road to progress. Aim higher, was Du Bois' response, especially meant for the ears of those he called "the talented tenth," men and women like himself...