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Although racial and economic discrimination is hardly new, the scope of the current sentiment is alarming. Just as middle-class community groups have absorbed lessons in organizing from the civil rights movement, they seem to have turned inward. Their very sense of community, of wholeness, seems to derive from a homogeneity that can breed xenophobia. "Often communities that are the most cohesive are also hostile and fearful of outsiders," says University of Chicago Sociologist Richard Taub. "Community spirit says, 'Take care of your own.' The ethical challenge is to make people see that the world is their community...
...scope of her travels has expanded since high school days, and international trips have become almost habitual. Rodriguez has studied in Moscow, West Berlin and Poland. And the Sherman Fellowship she won her sophomore year will take her to Leningrad after graduation. Her long list of honors includes the Radcliffe Murray Fellowship and the Lowe Foundation Fellowship, as well as two awards from outside organizations--one from the American Council of Teachers of Russians, and one from the Council on International Educational Exchange...
...quietly expanding scope of American Islam has become evident only as the result of new research. At a symposium at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Carol Stone, a doctoral student at Indiana University, estimated that there are 4,644,000 U.S. Muslims, with the largest concentration in California. The large majority of U.S. adherents are not affiliated with a mosque, but this is not for lack of opportunity. UMASS Historian Yvonne Haddad, who organized the Amherst sessions, counts more than 600 Islamic centers across...
Likewise, on April 18, 1988, he attacked a Stanford decision to replace its Western Cultures requirement with a new mandatory course, "Cultures, Ideas, and Values," which is more global in scope. The California university plans to reduce the number of great works covered by the required freshman course from six to 15 in 1989, eliminating such seminal writers as Shakespeare, Descartes, and Dostoevsky. These pieces will be replaced by works by and concerning women, Blacks, and Asians, in a noble effort to expose American students to different, non-white male perspectives and cultures...
Much of Roth's work with live specimens took place when he worked with the U.S. Army. As an army entomologist, Roth was in an odd position. When he first started working in the lab, the group was studying the biological detoriation of materials and soon expanded their scope to basic insect behavior. "When I first arrived there, the philosophy was, 'Don't worry about the application of the finding, someone else will do that,'" Roth recalls...