Unhealthy Disparities
April 20, 2004, 8:46 a.m. Unhealthy Disparities: Race-Card Rx By Roger Clegg Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has announced that one of his highest priorities this year will be passing legislation designed to eliminate...
Tagged: Affirmative Action and Diversity
Frist’s First Priority: Medical Quotas
Frist Priority: Medical Affirmative Action Last Priority: Competent Doctors By Steve Sailer April 25, 2004 Senate Majority Leader and surgeon Bill Frist (R-TN) is pushing as his “highest priority” a bill he introduced along...
Diversity’s False Solace
Diversity’s False Solace The New York Times April 11, 2004 By WALTER BENN MICHAELS The university where I have taught for the last three years — the University of Illinois, Chicago — is a...
Racial Identity in Balance
Racial Identity in Balance The Chronicle of Higher Education by Naomi J. Miller Speaking as a multiracial faculty member, I know that many of the regular invitations that I receive to serve on committees...
The Quota Quandary
The Quota Quandary The United States is not the only country struggling with affirmative action in university admissions 2/13/04 Chronicle of Higher Education By BETH McMURTRIE Largely unnoticed by those mired in this debate,...
Free Speech and the “Race” Game
King Posters Rile Some at Neb. School DiversityInc. Officials disciplined students who papered their nearly all-white high school with posters advocating a white student from South Africa for the school’s “Distinguished African-American Student Award.”...
Dean’s blunt talk about race
“Everybody tends to hire people like themselves.” Neither Dean nor Jackson understands that who we consider “like ourselves” changes based on different situations and where we are in certain periods of life. The people...