Word: racistly
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...aggravated the tension. In mid-October, a preliminary report on Harvard admissions prepared by an assistant to Bok was disclosed. The report said that high test scores often overpredict the academic performance of women and minorities at schools like Harvard, a finding which Third World students called "invalid" and "racist." In early November, the president of the Black Students Association, Lydia P. Jackson '82, received a death and rape threat from an as yet undetermined caller warning her to refrain from "political activities...
...unfair to the bewildered, mostly illiterate Haitians. Critics challenge the Government's presumption that Haitians come here for economic reasons, and are thus not eligible for political asylum. Most Cuban arrivals, by contrast, are assumed to be fleeing from Communism. Some lawyers for the refugees charge it is racist to single out Haitians, 95% of whom are black, for exclusion...
Ever since his election, Ronald Reagan has sounded the theme of a new, "constructive" tilt in U.S. relations with racist South Africa. As the President has put it, "Can we abandon a country that has stood beside us in every war we've ever fought, * a country that strategically is essential to the free world?" Translating that concern into policy, however, has turned out to be a complex and tricky business. Just how much so became clear last week as fragments emerged of the evolving U.S. plan for handling an explosive issue that pits South Africa against black Africa...
Several blatantly racist attacks against minorities at Harvard, most of which were committed by as-yet-unidentified assailants, disrupted the University last fall and threatened to heighten racial tension. The president of the Black Students Association (BSA) received rape and death threats. Someone broke into the BSA office and scrawled racist epithets on the organizations's calendar. At Williams College, a cross was burned...
...days to kill," one of the calendar defacements read; and although 300 people protested such outrageously racist gestures at a rally before the Harvard-Yale Game, Lydia P. Jackson '82, president of the BSA, said she perceived the events of the fall as threatening "our right to be here." Tension persisted into the winter despite a decrease in the number of blatantly racist acts...