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Washington Briefs

Congress Hears Support For Completion GrantsWASHINGTON — Leaders of the TRIO community made their case for new college completion grants before a congressional committee late last month.The plan, part of President Clinton’s budget, would provide $35 million for such completion grants, which would help students enter and stay in college. Colleges that participate in the […]

April 26, 2000

Students

When it comes to coping with the stresses of being a scholar-athlete, many kids are finding that Matters

When it comes to coping with the stresses of being a scholar-athlete, many kids are finding that MattersHi, Mom!Not too long ago, the image of a Black athlete smiling broadly into a camera’s lens waving hello to mom was a common occurrence. Likewise, many a parent’s dream of a new home was realized when their […]

April 26, 2000

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Diversity Should be Praised, Not Enforced

Diversity Should be Praised, Not EnforcedBy Karin ChenowethThe latest school integration case is now being chewed over by school board attorneys around the country, and it’s proving fairly indigestible. No one is quite sure where it leaves magnet programs, busing programs, transfer policies or anything else related to school integration and desegregation.The case, Eisenberg vs. […]

April 12, 2000

African-American

BI News Briefs

After Carby Ruckus, Yale Gives Black Studies Department StatusNEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale University officials announced last month that they will give departmental status to their African-American studies program.The decision comes on the heels a rescinded resignation by the program’s chairwoman, Dr. Hazel Carby, who submitted her pink slip early last month. She had said […]

March 15, 2000

STEM

Nullifying Inequities in the Criminal Justice System

Nullifying Inequities in the Criminal Justice SystemWASHINGTON —  If you were a brilliant, well-trained African-American male who hoped to be tenured at an elite White law school, the last thing to do would be to advance a legal theory that supports letting Black criminal defendants go free — even when they are guilty. Yet that […]

March 15, 2000

STEM

Nullifying Inequities in the Criminal Justice System

Nullifying Inequities in the Criminal Justice SystemWASHINGTON —  If you were a brilliant, well-trained African-American male who hoped to be tenured at an elite White law school, the last thing to do would be to advance a legal theory that supports letting Black criminal defendants go free — even when they are guilty. Yet that […]

March 15, 2000

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Terrible Tragedy, Teachable Moment

Terrible Tragedy, Teachable MomentWhile it is trite to describe the massacre of Amadou Diallo as a “teachable moment,” the educator in me seeks to gain something from the tragic killing of an innocent Black man in the Bronx, New York, on February 4, 1999. The “wilding” of the Special Crimes Task Force, their trial and […]

March 15, 2000

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Civil Rights Museum Adds New Displays

Civil Rights Museum Adds New Displays MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Evidence pointing to James Earl Ray as Martin Luther King Jr.’s killer is going on display at the museum on the site of the civil rights leader’s murder.The King family says a recent civil court verdict supporting their belief that Ray was an unknowing fall guy […]

February 16, 2000

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Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career  Consultants: What are the critical factors in determining whether litigation is my only option in a promotion dispute, and if I do sue my institution, is that tantamount to career suicide?Jonathan R. Alger,Counsel,  American Association of University Professors,Washington, D.C.We live in a litigious society in which the media portray courts as the forum […]

February 16, 2000

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Injustice Along the Color Line

Injustice Along the Color LineIn the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the United States Supreme Court turned down a petition for freedom from an enslaved African American.  The author of the court’s ruling, Chief Justice Roger B. Tawney, declared that Blacks could never be granted equal protection under the law or civil rights, because they […]

February 16, 2000

Sports

An Unappealing Decision

An Unappealing DecisionExperts view U.S. Circuit Court panel’s reversal of Cureton v. NCAA  as maintaining a ‘discriminatory status quo’ in collegiate sportsBy Eric St. JohnWASHINGTON — The NCAA “is free to discriminate.”  That is how some experts are interpreting the decision of a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled […]

February 2, 2000

Asian American Pacific Islander

The ‘Other’ Asians

The ‘Other’  AsiansWith their numbers on the rise, Indian, Pakistani and other South Asian scholars are gradually emerging from academe’s shadows.When Dr. Madhulika Khandelwal did a computer search for literature about Indian immigrants in 1986, she got back thousands of hits.“I thought,  ‘Wow! I thought there was nothing.’ But there were thousands of titles,” says Khandelwal, […]

February 2, 2000