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Racial Discrimination College Campuses
1,405 wordsIf there is one thing that the OJ Simpson trial will be remembered for, it is the racial polarization felt by all who have an opinion of the trial. Even though the trial itself was a farce, it does say something about where we are today as an American culture. It seems as though the racial divide is growing ever wider in our culture. Terms such as African-American or Irish-American are only helping to expand separation based on ethnic background. Just the fact that people insist on being identif...
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Alcoholic Beverages Age Drinking
625 wordsOne of the greatest disputes in colleges today is whether or not alcoholic beverages should be allowed on campus. It is known that there are a significant amount of colleges that do allow drinking on campus. Obviously, there are many students who believe that drinking should not be outlawed throughout their college life. However, a majority of college residents tend to forget that they are not of legal age. Although many of my peers may disagree, I strongly believe that all colleges should be dr...
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Binge Drinking On College Campuses
1,342 wordsWe have all heard the terms boozing, drinking to get drunk, sloshed, tanked, tipsy, tooted, hammered, and the like. But have you ever really thought about what you were saying when you used these terms. You were saying that all that you did the night before was binge drink. Binge drinking on college campuses is something that has grown to an all time high. All too often we have heard the horror stories of how kids are getting behind the wheel of a car after a night of binge drinking, and end up ...
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Affirmative Action And Racial Tension
1,743 wordsAffirmative action. What was its purpose in the first place, and do we really need it now in the liberal super sensitive nineties? It began in an era when minorities were greatly under represented in universities and respectable professions. Unless one was racist, most agreed with the need of affirmative action in college admissions and in the workplace. Society needed an active law that enforced equality during a period when civil rights bills were only effective in ink. With so much of America...
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University Of California Affirmative Action
1,159 words... oking. Black and Hispanic admissions are down significantly at the two top campuses in the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA. Black admittance to Berkeley and UCLA is down 57 % and 43 % respectively. Hispanic admittance is down 40 % and 33 %. The drop was far less dramatic for the whole college, which includes six more campuses. The total drop was 17. 6 % for blacks and 6. 9 % for Hispanics (Krauthammer 23). This shows the large number of non-qualified minority students that were e...
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Proposition 13 And The California School System
1,311 words... ities, this meant some hospital closures. Cities and counties, as a result of decisions made during more affluent times, had to set aside large amounts of money to retire bonds, pay the increasing costs of pension programs and finance employee wage agreements that hiked public employee pay an average of 35 percent since Proposition 13. Studies show that between the fiscal years of 1979 and 1980, pension costs rose 54 percent to an all-time high of over $ 1. 2 billion. Communities were affect...
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Affirmative Action Programs Colleges And Universities
1,600 wordsAffirmative action's role in colleges and universities has been a strongly debated topic. The heated subject has again come to the forefront due to the recent bans imposed on affirmative action by California and Washington. In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled (University of California Regents v. Bakke) that universities are allowed to consider race as a factor when choosing which students to accept. Affirmative action was intended to level the racial playing field and give minorities chances in the...
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College Campuses Affirmative Action
1,767 words... Florida. He gives us some statistical figures that shed light on the extent of racial discrimination in this university. It appeared that 67 % of respondents had experienced it in one way or another: On a general level, 74 % of Whites and 85 % of Blacks believed in the existence of racial hostility (Albany, p. 37). Such hostility is a fact, but the worst way to deal with it to is denying it altogether. As practice shows, every attempt to restructure society, according to some utopia principl...
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Alcohol Related Problems Alcoholic Beverages
4,277 wordsCollege Alcohol Risk Assessment Guide Environmental Approaches to Prevention Barbara E. Ryan / Tom Colthurst / Lance Stars, PhD The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Education Development Center, Inc. 55 Chapel Street Newton, MA 02158 - 1060 Tel: 800 676 - 1730 In cooperation with Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Studies UCSD Extension, University of California, San Diego This publication was supported by a grant from the U. S. Department of Education, Fund for the Im...
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Stephen F Austin Dorm Halls Buildings
517 wordsCollege Campuses College Campuses I have been to many college campuses and seen how they are set up. They all are organized in the same fashion with the exception of few. College campuses are divided into different buildings, and the buildings are classified by the subject matter covered in each building. Stephen F. Austin State University is set up this way and its campus is an example of these facts. Each campus has at least one administration building if not more. The administration building ...
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Compulsive Gamblers Las Vegas
3,550 wordsAmericans are familiar with the nation s major addictions: narcotics, alcohol, and tobacco. Society has spent countless millions of dollars warning about these substances, however another addiction that receives far less attention is sweeping across America. This addiction is having a major impact on the college campuses across our nation. The executive director of the N. C. A. A. , Cedric W. Dense, in his 1997 State of the Association address called gambling the most serious threat facing inter...
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