Just Goes To Show You…
… that newspapers in major cities can be fair if they put their mind to it. The Lincoln Journal-Star published a Q&A about the proposed Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative that is fair, balanced, and neutral. What a shame such coverage is so rare.
Univ. of Nebraska Closes Door On Debating Civil Rights Initiative
The Lincoln (Neb.) Journal-Star reports today that [a] University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor says the NU Board of Regents violated open-meetings law last month when it discussed a proposed affirmative-action ban without specifically listing the topic on its printed agenda. Chemistry Professor Gerard Harbison on Tuesday wrote Regents Chairman Chuck Hassebrook to request the board void […]
Help?
The Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal Star article that I discussed in the UPDATE to this post below quotes John R. Hibbing, professor of political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: it may be difficult to get Nebraska voters to want to end efforts to increase diversity within state institutions, he said. Nebraskans seem favorable toward helping […]
UPDATE
Please note that Is Colorblind Equality Xenophobic?, below, has been UPDATED.
Is Colorblind Equality Xenophobic?
xenophobia noun intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries [Oxford American Dictionary via Macintosh] Peter Schmidt has a generally thorough, fair, and hence useful comprehensive report in the Chronicle of Higher Education today on the status of the effort to pass Michigan-style civil rights initiatives barring racial preferences in five states: […]
Some Wisdom From Missouri
From an editorial by Henry J. Waters III, publisher of the Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune, on the recent racial school assignment decision: Affirmative action violates the principle of Brown. Chief Justice John Roberts expressed this idea with a rubric sure not to please his opponents when he said the way to eliminate race preferences is […]
Snippy, Snippy
Mark Tushnet, the distinguished Harvard law professor, has a rather snippy critique of — actually, not so much a critique of as a lament about — the Pacific Legal Foundation in today’s Los Angeles Times. As most of you know, and as Tushnet points out for those who don’t, the Pacific Legal Foundation is a […]
“Diversity” = Proportional Representation
It is now so widely understood that “diversity” does not mean diversity that it’s hardly necessary to keep mentioning it. Such expressions as “How many diverse students are enrolled at X University?” and “what proportion of the staff is diverse?” have become commonplace. As these expressions reveal, many people now treat “diverse” simply as a […]
The Transmogrification Of Affirmative Action
Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity and honorary co-chair of the new Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, explains to Arizona readers why she abandoned her earlier support for affirmative action. When I entered the University of Colorado as a freshman in the fall of 1965, there were few black or Hispanic students enrolled. […]
Arizona And Oklahoma
Arizona and Oklahoma join the party with the launching of drives to put the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative and the Oklahoma Civil Rights Initiative on the 2008 ballot. UPDATE Writing earlier today about conflicting confusions in Colorado (here), I noted that some opponents of the new civil rights initiative opposed it because there were no […]
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