SAN DIEGO — Opening a satellite city office in a far-flung neighborhood is not unusual in sprawling cities like this one. But one thing sets apart Mayor Bob Filner’s newest outpost: it is in another country.
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Students would be able to be on teams and use bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity rather than their sex.
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After lagging behind other Americans in education for generations, Latinos have significantly narrowed the gap, and last year they passed a milestone, with new Hispanic high school graduates more likely than their white counterparts to go directly to college, according to a new study.
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The recent flap over a Cal State San Marcos sorority’s ill-advised theme party and their concomitant slap on the wrist from the university’s PC police focuses attention yet again on race and ethnic identity in what is supposed to be an era of colorblindness.
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SAN MARCOS — Sorority and fraternity leaders at UC San Diego have joined in a call for racial sensitivity on college campuses after a recent incident at Cal State San Marcos in which sorority members dressed as “cholas” posted photos on social networking sites.
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Students protest after they say officers responded differently to two parties near campus, one attended mostly by black students, the other mostly by whites.
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I must join the recent outrage over White Greek fraternities and sororities (and an Asian fraternity recently) donning blackface and performing blackness on our college campuses. Sights of White Greeks in blackface usually at parties have sparked Black student activism around the nation. It is mobilizing students to demand racial change, to demand a better
VIDALIA, Ga. — For years, labor unions and immigrant rights activists have accused large-scale farmers, like those harvesting sweet Vidalia onions here this month, of exploiting Mexican guest workers. Working for hours on end under a punishing sun, the pickers are said to be crowded into squalid camps, driven without a break and even cheated
A fraternity voluntarily accepts a 16-month university suspension, even as administrators have not said whether the discipline would be legally permissible.
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SAN MARCOS — Some Latino students at Cal State San Marcos say they were offended by recent pictures posted on the Internet depicting members of a campus sorority dressed as cholas, Latina gang members or hoodlums.
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