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- <text id=91TT2268>
- <title>
- Oct. 14, 1991: American Notes:Education
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 14, 1991 Jodie Foster:A Director Is Born
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 33
- American Notes
- EDUCATION
- Not for Whites Only
- </hdr><body>
- <p> High schoolers traditionally sign up in the fall for
- activities like football, cheerleading and the school newspaper.
- But at racially diverse Anaheim High School in Anaheim, Calif.,
- students can now join the European-American Club, founded to
- promote "the educational and social advancement of the
- European-American student."
- </p>
- <p> Principal Craig Haugen said he was skeptical at first, but
- was convinced the club's motives weren't racist. "It's not a
- whites-only club," he says. In fact, 50% of the students who
- have signed up are Hispanic. Why the interest? The club will be
- teaching its members how to fill out college applications, study
- for the SATs and join the military. None of the school's other
- ethnic clubs, such as the Mexican American Engineering Society
- and the Black Students Union, offer such extensive services.
- Ramona Bejar, 17, who plans to join the Marines after
- graduation, has signed up. Says Bejar, who is Hispanic: "It
- isn't only white people who need to know how to fill out college
- forms. Everybody does."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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