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By GEORGE BOWLES
Somehow the Federal parties involved in Virginia’s seemingly endless college desegregation controversy appear to be missing the main point of the exercise.
They are wrangling over numbers in the abstract. Their proper concern should be attracting students to the admissions offices of the colleges.
From the rhetoric of the federal Office of Civil Rights and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Inc., one might reasonably conclude that the squabble is taking place two decades ago when the Commonwealth’s institutions of higher learning were indeed segregated.
Even a decade ago, when the maintenance of racially separate institutions of higher learning had long since ceased to be the official policy of the state, efforts to attract black students to predominantly white colleges and vice versa were only half-hearted and largely perfunctonary. Social pressures, which can be qc qo Innral
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