n 2006, the University of California, Los Angeles, student newspaper published a story stating the UC system was admitting “an unprecedented number of Asian students” that, for the first time, vaulted them ahead of Whites as the racial group comprising the largest share of admissions.
Upset by the insinuation and portrayal of them as a uniformly
WASHINGTON — These are hectic days for the federal deportation officer who has made it his single-minded mission to stop a bipartisan bill to overhaul the immigration system that is making its way through the Senate.
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Nearly half a century after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a sweeping federal education act and promised to “bridge the gap between helplessness and hope” for disadvantaged children in the nation’s public schools, Congress is still trying to fine-tune the law to achieve its original goals.
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WASHINGTON — Senator Claire McCaskill wandered down the dais at the Senate Armed Services Committee’s first hearing of the year and noticed a startling tableau: women to the left, women to the right.
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In the early 1980s, a student at Harvard University who had been born a female but lived as a male gained the trust and support of a sympathetic university registrar. Each semester, the campus official would ask the student to provide a list of the classes he’d signed up for. The registrar made sure that
Though many Asian-American interest groups have lined up to support the University of Texas’ affirmative action policy amid the Fisher v. University of Texas court battle, some Asian-American groups have sided with Abigail Fisher, arguing that race-conscious decisions in university admissions hurt qualified Asian-American students.
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Opponents of race-based affirmative action in college admissions urge that colleges use a different tool to encourage diversity: giving a leg up to poor students. But many educators see real limits to how eager colleges are to enroll more poor students, no matter how qualified — and the reason is money.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s judgment against the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe in its bid to save the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname, whose retirement state voters overwhelming endorsed last summer.
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The firm responds to a campaign urging it to remove posts that promote violence against women.
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Chivas USA’s well-publicized drive to return to its Mexican roots has spawned a racial discrimination lawsuit by two former coaches in the Major League Soccer club’s youth academy who allege they were fired because they do not speak Spanish.
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