CR-CL’s Executive Editors for Online Content Noah Kaplan and Matt Giffin are joined by HarvardCRCL.org employment law blogger Minal Caron. We discuss the recent grant of certiorari in Fisher v. University of Texas and the future of affirmative action. MInal discusses his recent post looking at the legality and the implications of unpaid internships in the for-profit and government sectors.
As the allegations of sexual harassment built against Herman Cain this month, Cain’s supporters and the press have quickly invoked race as a part of the discussion in Cain’s presidential campaign. After the press aired the initial allegations of harassment, Cain’s supporters began to echo the “high tech lynching” terminology [...]
It turns out it may the schools, and not the kids, who are causing the discipline problems. A new study from Texas tracked every Texas seventh-grader from 2000, 2001, and 2002 for six years or more to examine the interaction between school discipline, poverty, race, and the juvenile justice system.
In a story reported on by news outlets as varied as ESPN and NPR last week, University of New Mexico football player Deshon Marman was arrested after refusing to deplane from a US Airways flight based on complaints from the flight crew about his sagging pajama pants. The story has taken an interesting, if disheartening, turn this week with the revelation that a man dressed only in women’s underwear was allowed to fly on a US Airways flight just days before Marman’s loose waistband caused such a stir.
It’s March and that means it’s time for March Madness, time for everyone to fill out their bracket, join a pool, and sneakily watch games online instead of doing work. All of this fun is created by the presence of student-athletes at America’s Division I colleges and universities, and we need to remember that these people are students, as well as athletes. The racial graduation gap has grown from 22 percent in 2009 to a current level of 32 percent.
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