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This raises an unsettling question: does a minority have to “act white?? to get elected? As is the case with many politicians, it’s hard to discern Jindal’s genuine beliefs from statements designed to cater to the average Louisiana voter. Although his broad platform promise to “end corruption in Louisiana” is universally appealing, you can bet that the more extreme viewpoints he dishes up to white Republicans get omitted from the soothing “heritage” speeches he gives at Indian-American fundraising...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: The Brown Blessing | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...woman’s behavior is altered by it. Porn causes a woman to feel immense pressure to conform to an unattainable standard of beauty and sex appeal. Dines blames everything from hard-core pornography to mainstream magazine covers of models who are “blonde, female, and white??with a ‘fuck me’ look on her face...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: The Politics of Porn | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

...views on divisive issues like race and gay marriage, making students uncomfortable just as they were settling into their new homes. Not only did the program make many students feel pressured to express university-approved ideology, but it also constructed issues of diversity in terms of “white?? and “non-white.” In some of the training materials, for example, students were given definitions of pertinent vocabulary. The term “racist” was defined as “one who is privileged and socialized on the basis...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: ‘Diversity’ Gone Awry | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...from an early exposure to the Chinese language. “When I was in 6th grade, my mom took my brother and me to a museum exhibit in Philadelphia,” she remembers. “They had a girl there who was translating, and she was white??so I thought, ‘Not only is Chinese such a melodic-sounding language...

Author: By Diane J. Choi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Looking in the Mirror? | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...NCAA Championships. And this year, the team expects even more.“Last year, we were in the Petite [Final], so now, we want to put ourselves in a position to win a medal,” junior co-captain Liz Demers says, referring to the Black and White??s 11th-place effort at the NCAAs. “The next step is to get ourselves to the Grand Finals.”The crew is poised, but it is also young. Two of the leaders of the team, one commodore and one captain, are juniors. Radcliffe...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HEAD OF THE CHARLES '07: Righting Its Ship | 10/20/2007 | See Source »

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