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Fight or Flight

Ted Shaw and other diversity proponents retool while Ward Connerly gloats.

August 22, 2007

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A Deafening Silence

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this summer on the school integration plans in Seattle and Louisville seemed to be met with a deafening silence by the nation’s civil rights groups.

August 22, 2007

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Fight or Flight

Ted Shaw and other diversity proponents retool while Ward Connerly gloats.

August 22, 2007

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Is Right the New Left?

An Analysis of Justice Clarence Thomas’s Concurring Opinion In the Seattle and Louisville Cases

August 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The Secrets Behind Their Success

Attracting and graduating minorities in large numbers, for-profit universities offer access, convenience and some risk.

August 22, 2007

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Affirmative Action Still In Play, Says Departing LDF Leader

Theodore M. Shaw, president-director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund who is stepping down February 2008, talks to Diverse about his future plans and the ongoing fight to end inequality in education. He also has some choice words for anti-affirmative action advocate Ward Connerly.

August 18, 2007

Sports

Legal trouble with Rutgers player only beginning for Imus

NEW YORK On the same day Don Imus settled a lawsuit with CBS Radio after being fired for making sexist and racist comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, his legal troubles with one of the players began.

August 14, 2007

Sports

Rutgers student files lawsuit against Imus, CBS, MSNBC

NEW YORK A member of the Rutgers women’s basketball team sued Don Imus and CBS on Tuesday, claiming the radio personality’s sexist and racist comments about the team damaged her reputation.

August 14, 2007

Sports

Judge rules against student suspended for wearing rebel flag

ST. LOUIS An eastern Missouri school district was within its rights to suspend a student who refused to remove clothing bearing the Confederate battle flag, a federal judge ruled.

August 13, 2007

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Arizona Supreme Court upholds dismissal of tuition challenge

PHOENIX The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling dismissing a challenge to the state Board of Regents’ 2003 decision to increase in-state university tuition by nearly 40 percent.

August 12, 2007

Students

Virginia Tech killings underscore guns-on-campus campaign

RICHMOND Virginia Some U.S. college students want the right to carry guns on campus, saying they should have the ability to protect themselves in the event of a shooting like the one that left 33 people dead at Virginia Tech this spring.

August 12, 2007

Students

Tricky Times for the Top 10 Percent Program

Both supporters and critics of Texas’ Top 10 Percent law have been surprised at its popularity, but some UT officials and legislators would like to see the program scaled back.

August 8, 2007