December 01, 2004
(vol. 115, iss. 43)
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… Robert Megginson will address students, faculty and staff and take ques- tions about the state of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts today. This "State of the College" address will take place…
… the practice. Study finds strong link between race, employer response C alif researcher finds Arab Americans most likely to face job discrimination By Carissa Miller Daily Staff Reporter…
… legal firms and other upper-level employment." The names that were compared in the study derived from five groups: Asian Americans, Latinos, blacks, Arab Americans/South Asians and whites. Response rates…
… from the agencies varied between each of the groups, as well as between men and women in certain groups. Overall, names that were stereotypically associ- ated with Arab Americans/South Asians and Asian…
… the differences. "We think the Latinos came out first because it was thought that they had bilingual skills, which is especially important in California," she said. "The backlash against Arab Americans…
… fear of legal repercussions, which explains the low response rate. While the average response rate was higher for women than for men in all groups, the gap was par- ticularly evident with Arab Americans…
…, Thanasombat said. "It is really scary that this type of discrimination exists," said Chad Doobay, a Law School student who attended the presentation. "I was surprised by the gender difference - the fact that…
… students in the civil engineering department. "There were no female professors at all that she knew of," he said. and engineering has increased sig- nificantly since 2001, according to leaders of the proj…
… Ann Arbor look like a drug-permissive community," he said. Goups opposed to the law such as the Activism. It sets us apart. School of Information master's students are change agents. They help the…
… public understand the principle of access to information while protecting privacy. SI students do not master technology for its own sake, either. They apply their skills for the benefit of all, but…