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a reviewer for the leading liberal weekly ridiculed the argument that
pornography degrades women by arguing that "hideous stereotyping of
nightclub owners, plumbers who leave their bodies lying out from under
the sink and newspaper boys who knock on the door, also occurs."
Stober(1992).
49 New York Times A10 (March 17, 1992) (margin of error +/-4%).
50 New York Times A8 (October 9, 1990).
51 New York Times 1 (December 14, 1991).
52 New York Times B16 (December 4, 1991), A7 (February 6, 1992);
Podbereskyv. Kirwan, 956 F.2d 52 (4th Cir. 1992), Only about 1500
minority students hold such scholarships, less than 0.03 per cent of the
5,200,000 university students receiving financial aid. Los Angeles Times
A5 (March 17, 1992). The Regents of the University of California recently
accepted a $500,000 bequest for scholarships for "very poor American
Caucasian" students, observing that the testator "was well-intentioned."
New York Times A11 (September 22, 1992). There are now enough
minority alumni at many universities to donate significant funds for
minority scholarships—$1.4 million at Syracuse University in the last
four years. New York Times A6 (August 31, 1992).
53 Chronicle of Higher Education A38 (February 5, 1992). The U.S. Justice
Department's Office of Civil Rights has just required the UC Berkeley law
school to change its affirmative action admissions programme dramatically.
Los Angeles Times A1 (September 29, 1992); New York Times A15
(September 30, 1992).
India's half-century effort to alleviate religious, caste, and ethnic
inequalities has stimulated even more violent responses. In 1990 six
students in Haryana, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh committed suicide to
protest affirmative action for the scheduled castes and indigenous peoples;
there were three more attempts in New Delhi, and trains and cars
were attacked in Allahabad. New York Times A4 (October 9, 1990). See
generally Galanter (1984).
54 Chronicle of Higher Education A15 (November 27, 1991).
55 New York Times 1 (April 13, 1991); Chronicle of Higher Education A24
(January 8, 1992), A24 (February 12, 1992). The panel member was an
anti-feminist woman philosophy professor, Christina Hoff Sommers.
56 University students with physical disabilities enthusiastically supported
the creation of their own cultural centre. A counselor explained: "a
cultural center is saying we have a culture we want to share. The culture
is part of the disability that distinguishes us, the same as people of color
organize around their culture." One of the organisers, who is blind,
added: "For years we have been asked to live in this able-bodied world,
trying to become able-bodied people. The idea here is, I'm proud of my
disability and I don't need to be fixed." New York Times s.1 p.45 (April
26, 1992).
57 Guardian 29 (November 5,1991). Since 1988 the Dutch government has
supported Islamic primary schools, with single-sex physical education
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