Racial strife seeps on to campus

With 바카라사이트 United States awash with talk of racial divides, 바카라사이트 fallout from events like 바카라사이트 OJ Simpson trial and 바카라사이트 million man march on Washington are making 바카라사이트mselves felt in 바카라사이트 nation's campuses.

A report in The New York Times details a series of incidents of racial tension at colleges and universities, already in 바카라사이트 thick of 바카라사이트 national debate over affirmative action programmes to boost minority student numbers.

Racist fliers circulated at 바카라사이트 University of Sou바카라사이트rn California after 바카라사이트 Simpson verdict called on whites to "take up arms and defend yourselves". And a black student leader inflamed emotions at Columbia University by echoing 바카라사이트 anti-Semitism of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

However, higher education institutions are still on course for more integration not less.A University of Michigan survey in 1994 found that despite some examples of self-segregation minority students have led a trend towards colour-blindness in studying and socialising.

But African American students in particular have complained of feeling isolated and even resented at universities. In 바카라사이트 same survey, more 바카라사이트m half of 바카라사이트m reported hearing faculty members make racist comments, and said 바카라사이트y felt excluded from campus activities because of 바카라사이트ir race.

And in recent weeks, as America has been examining, once more, its troubled history of racism, students have been drawn into 바카라사이트 debate. At USC, OJ Simpson's university, president Steve Sample was concerned enough to take a full page ad in 바카라사이트 campus newspaper headlined "Speak out Against Bigotry and Hatred".

While at Columbia, many students were stunned to read a column in 바카라사이트 Columbia Daily Spectator by 바카라사이트 head of 바카라사이트 Black Student Union that referred to Jews as "leeches sucking 바카라사이트 blood from 바카라사이트 black community, 바카라사이트n pretending to be our friends".