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Students

Race Enters Debate Over Proposed South Carolina Lottery

Race Enters Debate Over Proposed South Carolina LotteryCOLUMBIA, S.C. New ads by opponents of South Carolina’s proposed lottery say the result would be middle-class students attending college on the backs of poor people  more likely to gamble. One opponent says the argument risks injecting race into the debate. Voters will be asked to decide Nov. […]

October 25, 2000

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Supreme Court Allows UCLA Experimental Elementary School

Supreme Court Allows UCLA Experimental Elementary SchoolTo Keep Race-Based AdmissionsWASHINGTONAn experimental elementary school that uses race as a factor when selecting its students survived a Supreme Court challenge last month. The justices let stand rulings that the school run by the University of California has a justifiable reason for considering race and therefore does not […]

October 25, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Shortage of Black Faculty Prompts Florida Law School To Hire Race Relations Consultant

Shortage of Black Faculty Prompts Florida Law School To Hire Race Relations ConsultantGAINESVILLE, Fla. The University of Florida’s law school has taken steps to hire a race relations consultant to find out why it can’t keep Black faculty members. Black faculty members hold only two of the law school’s 54 full-time faculty positions. “I attribute […]

October 25, 2000

HBCUs

Competing for Credit: Republican Watts Seeks HBCU Inroads

Competing   for Credit: Republican Watts Seeks HBCU InroadsWASHINGTONCall it Black college fever. Some folks just don’t know what to make of the sudden interest that Rep. Julius Caesar Watts, R-Okla., has in aiding minority-serving institutions. Assembling a gathering of Black college officials to meet with congressional Republicans and standing by Texas Gov. George W. Bush […]

October 11, 2000

Students

Student Attack at Washington State Raises Concerns About Race Problems

Student Attack at Washington State Raises Concerns About Race ProblemsPULLMAN, Wash. Police are still trying to determine why Washington State University freshman Atuanya Priester was beaten up last month. Some witnesses told investigators that Priester, from Seattle, was jumped by 10 men; others depict a confrontation between Priester and a member of a rival fraternity.Minority […]

October 11, 2000

Students

Georgia Sorority Members Ordered to Undergo Race Sensitivity Training

Georgia Sorority Members Ordered to Undergo Race Sensitivity Training ATHENS, Ga.A University of Georgia sorority accused of evaluating a potential pledge on the basis of race will undergo sensitivity training, according to an agreement with the university. A resolution released last month says Alpha Gamma Delta and the university agreed that some sorority members “may hold […]

October 11, 2000

Students

UGA Sorority Suspended During Discrimination Investigation

UGA Sorority Suspended During Discrimination InvestigationATHENS, Ga.University of Georgia officials have temporarily suspended a sorority while they investigate claims that an African American student was denied membership because of her race. University officials say a member of Alpha Gamma Delta filed a complaint against the sorority, which led officials to conduct a preliminary investigation.“Discrimination is […]

September 27, 2000

Latinx

Choosing Cultural Competence Over Diaspora Division

Choosing Cultural Competence Over Diaspora DivisionLiving in diverse sections of New York and Los Angeles during the 1960s and ’70s, I learned early that people of the same race don’t always consider themselves “brothers.” Some Blacks are Haitian, some Jamaican, and others are from Brooklyn. “I’m Black and I’m proud” might resonate with all, but […]

September 27, 2000

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La. Governor Turns Heads By Enrolling in HBCU Law School

La. Governor Turns Heads By Enrolling in HBCU Law SchoolBy Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, La.Five years after former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke helped him capture this state’s highest office, Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster has enrolled at Southern University Law Center. The 70-year-old Republican turned heads with his decision to enroll at the historically Black […]

September 13, 2000

African-American

Racial Divisions

Racial DivisionsHelping Students Build Bridges Across By Eleanor Lee Yates ANN ARBOR, Mich.A University of Michigan-based research project is looking at the link between diversity and learning on campus, examining how associating with different ethnic peers affects students’ social skills, cognitive thinking and attitudes on democracy. The project also will highlight college programs and activities that […]

September 13, 2000

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Sen. Lieberman and The Diversity Dilemma

Sen. Lieberman and The Diversity DilemmaT he conventional political wisdom about the major political parties is that Republicans ignore African Americans, and Democrats take us for granted.  Thus, 84 percent of us voted Democratic in 1996, because, according to the adage, we had nowhere else to go. But earlier this month, the Republican National Convention […]

August 30, 2000

Students

Federal Judge Rules That Georgia has No Compelling Interest in Promoting Diversity

Federal Judge Rules That Georgia has No Compelling Interest in Promoting DiversityA federal district judge ruled late last month that three White female applicants denied admission to the University of Georgia in 1999 should be offered admission to the institution this fall, effectively ending the university’s policy of giving special consideration to minority applicants.In his […]

August 16, 2000