Employees contribute more than $1.5 million to University

by Kofi Outlaw

Faculty and staff across the University donated $1.56 million to two separate internal fund-raising efforts this summer.

A record-high 1,611 non-medical faculty and staff members contributed to the 2002 Faculty-Staff Campaign, which generated $561,050 in donations. The funds include a pledge of $92,600 -- the highest amount to be pledged in a decade -- which will be contributed during Fiscal Year 2003.

According to Gigi Shafer, director of internal campaigns, the efforts of Malcolm Getz, associate professor of economics and chair of the campaign, was a major factor in this year's record participation, which exceeded last year's participation by more than 200 people.

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Law professor's controversial book denounces 'new white nationalism'

Author calls for end of racial preferences, fewer immigrants

by Susanne Loftis

Swain

Carol Swain sees herself as a "truth teller" and her latest book as mostly "old-fashioned common sense."

She's spent the summer calling for a review of what she sees as flawed U.S. immigration policy, an end to racial preferences and better, more forward-thinking African-American leadership to address the problems rampant in parts of the black community that make some want nothing to do with any African Americans.

The spotlight has been focused on Swain since the July 4 release of her book, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenges to Integration (Cambridge University Press). The 526-page book argues that the "new white nationalist" is neither a skinhead nor a Ku Klux Klan member; he or she is a smarter, more sophisticated, more politically adroit person who may or may not be a member of an organized group. The new white nationalist is more likely to be a college-educated, financially secure, middle-class American, she said.

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