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University policy ignores King legacy

Published Friday, January 12, 2001

Pop quiz: True or false: Yale College graduated as many blacks in 1969 as in 1996.

True or false: Yale's African American Studies program only became a full-fledged department after its chair resigned in protest at her program's treatment.

True or false: This year is the first year ever Yale's unionized employees have been given Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday, making our University the second-to-last major employer in the entire state to give its employees the day off, 18 years after the federal government first declared the holiday.

All of these are...

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