Eastern Mennonite University announced Saturday that is delaying formal action on rethinking its ban on hiring openly gay professors. The move disappointed those who had advocated for change. But those same critics noted that the university’s decision – which continued a suspension of the hiring policies in question – effectively reverses the ban for the
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she supports affirmative action in higher education because she believes that alternatives based on geographic or economic status don’t work to ensure a diverse student body.
Washington Post
Two decades after California voters took a hard line on illegal immigration, affirmative action and bilingual education, an ascendant class of Latino lawmakers is seeking to rewrite the books and discard the polarizing laws.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-pol-legislature-latinos-20140622-story.html#page=1
Los Angeles Times
Immigrant youths covered the dirty concrete floors of the Border Patrol holding cells here, sprawled shoulder to shoulder and draped in grubby Red Cross blankets, enveloped in a haze of sweat and body odor.
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Los Angeles Times
NOGALES, Ariz. — In a 120,000-square-foot warehouse on the edge of this desert city, Border Patrol agents line up hundreds of children who may have never seen a doctor for basic vaccinations and other medical care, hand out snacks or join them for a game of
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to require a higher level of scrutiny for race-based affirmative action was a step toward destabilizing race-conscious admission plans, and universities must find new ways – for now additional ones, but eventually substitute ones – to ensure diversity.
The Supreme Court gave supporters of church-state separation a rare and surprising victory Monday, leaving intact a lower-court decision that barred a public school district in Wisconsin from holding its graduation ceremonies in an evangelical Christian church.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-court-school-religion-20140617-story.html
Los Angeles Times
President Obama plans to sign an executive order forbidding companies that do business with the federal government from discriminating against employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, fulfilling a goal that gay rights organizations have sought for years.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-discrimination-20140617-story.html#page=1
Los Angeles Times
Affirmative action as we know it is probably doomed.
When you ask top Obama administration officials and people in the federal court system about the issue, you often hear a version of that prediction.
The New York Times
MIAMI — With the midterm elections only months away, efforts to carry out some of the country’s strictest photo ID requirements and shorten early voting in several politically pivotal states have been thrown into limbo by a series of court decisions concluding that the measures infringe on the right to vote.
The New York Times