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Article: Pennsylvania Panel to Probe Racial Incidents On College Campuses.(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- May 10, 2001
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Action prompted by recent incidents at Penn State, University of Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG, PA.
A resolution authorizing the Pennsylvania House of Representatives' Committee on Education to investigate racial incidents on college campuses recently passed unanimously. Rep. James R. Roebuck Jr., the sponsor of the resolution, hopes the legislation will draw attention to what he believes are lingering, fundamental racial problems on college campuses.
"I think this (resolution) is a general recognition that there are problems," he says, adding that the unanimous vote was evidence that the issue cut across different political opinions.
"I ...