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Texas Tech will return to a former policy of including race and ethnicity as a factor in ad missions after the Board of Regents approved the measure Friday. Race was a consideration before the 1996 Hopwood decision, which overturned affirmative action in Texas. The suit, named for lead plaintiff Cheryl Hopwood, was filed by four white students who were denied admission to the University of Texas School of Law. However, a June ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court allows universities to return to using race as one of multiple factors in the admissions process. "It allows the admissions policies to...

How nations perish Posted: September 10, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc. Gray Davis is a desperate man. Facing recall, he has just put the safety of California motorists at risk in a naked bid to buy Hispanic votes. Davis signed into law a bill he had twice rejected, to allow illegal aliens to get driver's licenses. One million illegals, many of them young, single males, will soon be on the roads of California. Inevitably, the toll of traffic dead will soar and California families will pay in the lives of loved ones so Davis can collect...

...The privilege walk [see the article] was part of a course in whiteness studies, a controversial and relatively new academic field that seeks to change how white people think about race. The field is based on a left-leaning interpretation of history by scholars who say the concept of race was created by a rich white European and American elite, and has been used to deny property, power and status to nonwhite groups for two centuries. Advocates of whiteness studies -- most of whom are white liberals who hope to dismantle notions of race -- believe that white Americans are so...

Band-Aids. Everyone needs 'em. But whether the Band-Aids you have hide your scars or draw attention to them is relative to the skin color you have. Latinos, African Americans, and many other ethnic groups with differently-pigmented skin than your standard peachy-white have to use the same Band-Aids as their white brothers! Where's the logic?!

An analysis of Singapore's nine-week-long outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) published yesterday shows that, although women outnumbered men in contracting the disease, more than half of those who died were men. The average age of those who died was 53. The study prepared by the World Health Organization and Singapore's Health Ministry said about 12.5 percent of Singapore's SARS patients have died, and that 56 percent of those victims were male. However, at 66 percent, women outnumbered men among those diagnosed as probably infected with SARS. The report did not explain the higher death rate for men. It...

<p>Oakland, where waves of Asian and Latino immigrants have settled in the past two decades, unveiled a 24-hour hot line Wednesday that gives residents information on 500 city services in five different languages.</p> <p>City officials believe Oakland is the first in the nation to offer an automated phone system in more than two languages. Two years ago, the city became the first in California to adopt a law that requires hiring bilingual staff and translating city documents.</p>

The majority of Africa’s economic and political lag behind the remainder of the world can be attributed to three key factors, the fomentation of strife and lack of preparation for independence on the part of certain Western powers, power-lusting governments that drain wealth from the nations into their own rulers’ accounts, and a prevalent tribalist/collectivist mindset within the populace that has frequently been evoked to bring about colossal tensions. Numerous Western powers performed scant actions to grant their African colonies the requisite experience with the democratic system, technological preparation, and overall enlightenment of the population to achieve genuine functionality at...

March 4, 2003 — Editor's Note: In a special communication published in the March 5 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, Jordan J. Cohen, MD, argues in favor of affirmative action or altering admissions criteria to facilitate minority enrollment in medical schools. A pending decision from the U.S. Supreme Court could have "catastrophic consequences" on medical school admissions, according to Dr. Cohen, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in Washington, D.C. After the the University of Michigan won lower court victories upholding its policies of race-conscious decision-making in higher education admissions, these lower court...

SINS OF ADMISSION Dinesh D'Souza When Michael Williams, head of the civil rights division of the Department of Education, sought to prevent American universities from granting minority-only scholarships, he blundered across the tripwire of affirmative action, the issue that is central to understanding racial tensions on campus and the furor over politically correct speech and the curriculum. Nearly all American universities currently seek to achieve an ethnically diverse student body in order to prepare young people to live in an increasingly multiracial and multicultural society. Diversity is usually pursued through "proportional representation, a policy that attempts to shape each university...

Ethnicity a factor in election BY TRICIA CORTEZ Times staff writer Ironically, race and ethnicity will determine who becomes the next governor of Texas, political veterans say. Although Democratic candidate Tony Sanchez has tried to avoid "playing the race card," race has permeated all aspects of the gubernatorial election process. From the attack ads of Republican opponent Gov. Rick Perry to media coverage of the campaigns and local comments from voters and analysts, everything has been colored by the fact that Sanchez is Mexican-American. "And who ever heard of a rich Mexican anyway?" political science professor Henry Flores of St....

Sanchez, Kirk head to the Valley for support Candidates use joint appearance to push 'getting the vote out' 10/22/2002 By BRENDA RODRIGUEZ / The Dallas Morning News MERCEDES, Texas - Democrats Tony Sanchez and Ron Kirk teamed up Monday in a campaign sweep along the border, urging supporters to ignore the polls and embrace their ideas for helping Texans. "We need your help," Mr. Sanchez told a packed room of civil leaders and business officials. "The party's over. We can't talk about all our big policy issues. ... What we need to talk about is getting the vote out."...

Colleges need to recruit more black professors I never really took into consideration the effect of having an African-American teacher until I got into college. In elementary school, most of my teachers were African-American. During high school, I had two African-American teachers who taught two different subjects. But at Alfred University, I don't have any African-American professors. During my freshman year, it didn't really affect me because I didn't notice or care. I was just happy that I was in college. But at the beginning of my sophomore year, I felt like I was lacking minority guidance in some classes,...

Media coverage of the conflict in the Middle East has simplified the description of the major parties to the point that they are incorrect. They missuse the terms Arab and Palestinian. Unless we have a more precise understanding of the peoples of the Middle Esat and iof their histories, we cannot properly understand what is going on there. Since the nineteenth century, and particularily after WWI nationalism has been a motivating force in world events. President Woodrow Wilson advanced the right of self-determination in his 14 point. Briefly stated, this means that any people who have their own culture have...