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January 24, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services At lunch counters, drinking fountains and restrooms; on sidewalks, buses and trains; in schools, parks and motels; in the armed forces; on the job; and at the ballot box, racial segregation in America was a fact of life … and still is. “We were struggling to challenge racism…
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January 24, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle “When I hear the sound of shattering notions, I know I’m on the right track,” said Pamela Motoike, a clinical psychologist in the student counseling office. Motoike, who participated in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day panel discussion on insights, issues and dilemmas in multicultural work, listed several notions she’d like…
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January 24, 1994
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services The question of whether equity and excellence can co-exist in education surfaced repeatedly in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day lecture hosted by the School of Education. Speaking about “The Roles of Standards and Assessment in Promoting Excellence and Equity,” Donald Stewart, president of the College Board, applauded…
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January 24, 1994
By Janet Mendler News and Information Services “Those” is an adjective that leads almost automatically to stereotyping, and is a word that should be used with utmost care, Daniel H. Ringler, told a group of staff members of the Unit of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM) during one of its programs commemorating the ideals of Martin…
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January 24, 1994
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services That elusive academic utopia—the multicultural university—was the subject of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium panel discussion last Monday in Rackham Amphitheater. June M. Howard, associate professor of English and director of the American Culture Program, noted that multiculturalism, while gradually being integrated into various curricula, will…
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January 24, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services As Americans look ahead to the challenge of becoming an integrated, diverse society in the 21st century, they must first look to past notions of multiculturalism, keynote speaker Charles Long told a Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium audience at Hill Auditorium. “As a nation, we have always…
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January 24, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle News and Information Services Looking back over the past 25 years, “I’m not sure where we’ve gone,” says Rick Olguin, professor of social sciences at North Seattle Community College, “Our schools and our neighborhoods are more racially stratified than they were 25 years ago. The question, he said, is perhaps not…
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January 24, 1994
By Kellee Davis News and Information Services More than 30 years ago, Rev. Alfred Sampson, pastor of the Fernwood United Methodist Church in Chicago, marched with Martin Luther King Jr. for the right to eat a hamburger in a restauraunt. “Today if I have to die, it will be over the crowder peas and yams…
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January 24, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Mae C. Jemison says education and parental encouragement made it possible for a young girl from South Chicago to grow up to become an entrepreneur, engineer, scientist, physician and former astronaut—all before the age of 40. “Education was the enabling factor that allowed me to do whatever I…
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January 24, 1994
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Had Martin Luther King’s fight for justice not abruptly ended in 1968, what would he be saying and doing to further that fight today? The pattern of King’s life suggests many possibilities, according to Mary Frances Berry, U-M alumna and head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. For…
