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(03/14/16 5:33am)
The Southern Strategy was a way for Republicans to win over the Southern white vote in the 1970s. The rhetoric rang of coded racial words like “forced busing” and “affirmative action,” but the message was clear: newly enfranchised black Americans had gotten a bit too big for their britches, and they were taking that which belonged to law-abiding, tax-paying white Americans. Today, a large part of our national conversation still revolves around taxes and jobs and university seats being taken by some undeserving “other,” and the recent death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia makes the fight for the future of affirmative action even more contentious.
(11/30/15 3:08pm)
Wonderful in theory, attempts at increasing diversity have not maintained the moral high ground with which they began. Diversity promises a world in which we exchange ideas, value each other and live together respectfully. It promises harmony and for a very long time stood as a beacon of hope. But the way in which we currently discuss diversity is misguided, and due to that misdirection it will not have, and has not had, the desired effect. I think to really highlight this point, though, we have to discuss what exactly we want from diversity.
(09/21/15 4:10am)
As per tradition, the Black Student Alliance, Collegiate 100 and National Pan-Hellenic Council had a first home football game kickoff on the Lawn. This year, it wasn’t particularly difficult to decide where to have it — Room 1 West Lawn is the only one occupied by a black student.