Word: extras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Universities are not openly defying the courts. In states where they have been ordered--as UGA was--to stop using formulas that give extra points to minority applicants, they have complied. But what they can do--and have done--is fight back with a range of new programs and policies designed to maintain minority enrollment while carefully walking the new legal lines set by the courts. No school has worked harder to do this than U.T.'s law school, which in 1996 was hit by a suit, Hopwood v. Texas; the ruling in that case removed race as a consideration...
Both sides of this debate claim to be working for diversity. The Georgia appeals court said UGA's inflexible formula, which assigned extra points to blacks, made the mistake of assuming that groups, rather than individuals, add diversity to a campus. "A white applicant from a disadvantaged rural area in Appalachia may well have more to offer a Georgia public university such as UGA--from the standpoint of diversity--than a nonwhite applicant from an affluent family and a suburban Atlanta high school," the court wrote...
...Georgia, Michigan and Texas suits all focused on admissions formulas and the extra points given to minority applicants. But if those decisions hold up, expect to see affirmative-action critics turn their attention to the newer, subtler affirmative-action policies. The same week the court issued the UGA ruling, the University of Florida announced, in response to an Office of Civil Rights directive, that it was changing its scholarship criteria to reduce the role of race. The move was unrelated to the UGA ruling, but it was a reminder that in the ongoing assault on affirmative action, these secondary forms...
...Mind of the Married Man (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.; preview 10 p.m. E.T. Tuesday, Sept. 11), successful Chicago journalists who fantasize about affairs (or just have them) and chafe under domestic responsibility. Think Sex and the City minus the Jimmy Choo shoes and cosmos but with an extra dose of dread. Bookended by two close friends, one philandering and the other henpecked, columnist Micky Barnes (creator-writer Mike Binder) fights temptation for his hot new assistant (Ivana Milicevic) while trying to do right by his hot wife (Sonya Walger). (The series might better be called The Groin of the Married...
Mysterious shipments of billiard balls may have been showing up in Washington lately, say law-enforcement officials, and they are not for the making of The Hustler 3. Instead, anarchist groups may be stockpiling the extra balls and planning to hurl them in protest at the weekend conference of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund that begins Sept. 29. The balls are thought to be the troublemakers' weapon of choice--easy to hide, easy to throw, legal to possess and dense enough to cause damage. Rioters defiantly threw them, along with less refined bricks, rocks and Molotov cocktails...