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Protected-Class Graduate Students Not Getting Enough Love From Harvard

Matthew McDonald

Harvard graduate students who belong to four identity-politics groups are complaining that several college officials haven't supported them enough.

The administrators have treated the students as "separate but equal," the students said, using the language of the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld government-enforced racial segregation.

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No More Indian Mascots If Maine Democrats Get Their Way

Matthew McDonald

A legislative committee in Maine has voted 7-5 to recommend banning American Indian mascots in Maine public schools, on party lines.

A Democratic supporter of the ban called it "a civil rights issue" while Republican opponents said they support local control, according to the Bangor Daily News.

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