Word: underclass
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...those that want to allow athletic scholarships don't see the longterm problems. They forget about how scholarships give schools incentives to cheat, or give powerful booster clubs reason to form, or create an "athletic underclass" that see school as a four-year purgatory until professional athletics become possible...
...body of Murray's speech dealt not with race, but with the growing dichotomy he said he perceives between the "cognitive elite" and the "cognitive underclass" in America. Transformations in higher education, centralization of power and occupations requiring high levels of intelligence have created this cognitive elite since the 1950s, he said...
Last night, Charles A. Murray '65 told his Harvard audience that America must face the problem that Blacks may be genetically consigned to disproportionate representation within the underclass. A few weeks ago, the President of Rutgers University bit his tongue after voicing similar beliefs...
Last fall Thomas Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson wrote an open letter to his classes criticizing the Black Students Association's seeming lack of commitment to helping "poor and underclass" Black communities outside of Harvard...
Kilson, who in the 1960s became the first Black tenured professor at Harvard, advised the leaders of the Black Students Association [BSA] that they should be "formulating week-by-week and month-by-month numerous projects to assist that long-haul task of outfitting the Black poor and underclass youth to read adequately, to manage math, to replace vulgarity with beauty, [and] to overcome hypermacho, anarchic and anti-humanistic values and personal identities...