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...professor Randall L. Kennedy wrote in a letter printed in The Washington Post on Sept. 14. “And I’ll think that an important ingredient of their error is racial prejudice—not the hateful, snarling, open bigotry that terrorized my parents in their youth, but rather a vague, sophisticated, low-key prejudice that is chameleonlike in its ability to adapt to new surroundings and to hide even from those firmly in its grip...
...weekend, Buchloh insists that undergraduates are the group that he is trying to target. “I was hoping that it would not just be a scholarly affair,” he says. Warhol’s role is particularly relevant to today’s youth, according to Molesworth. “I think the current generation of undergraduates exists in a world with more images than any other group of people ever on the history of the planet,” she says. “If Warhol is the artist who has the most to tell...
Work Force—originally formulated as a high school dropout prevention program—is a youth development program for low-income students in grades eight through 12 and offers college preparation and scholarships. In 2008, the program served over 130 students and achieved a 100 percent graduation rate and a 92 percent college matriculation rate...
...1980’s, Republicans dominated the youth vote. Perhaps the stigmatization of relatively few issues repels socially liberal students. The connotation of “family values” conceals its universal appeal. Beyond Roe v. Wade and gay marriage–though both campaigns agree on the latter–lies the desire to achieve stable communities. Spending just under two months in Sociology 155: Class and Culture accentuates how often broken families adversely affect children and how easily these situations affirm poverty through jail rates, school dropouts, and future behavioral patterns...
...legislature stayed solidly in Republican hands; the Democratic Party netted just one seat. But that larger outcome masked an intriguing development: anti-gay conservatives had suffered considerably. For instance, in northern Virginia, a Democrat named Charles Caputo (who received $6,500 from Ebbin's PAC) had beaten a Christian youth minister, Chris Craddock, by an unexpectedly large margin, with a vote of 56% to 41%. Three other candidates critical of gays were also defeated, including delegate Richard Black, who had long opposed gay equality in Richmond. Black had had no single donation as large as the $20,000 that Ebbin...