February 17, 2006

Government & Politics In Brief

By STEPHEN BURD

SETTLEMENT REACHED: The Southern Illinois University system's Board of Trustees voted unanimously last week to approve an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department making students of any race or gender eligible for three fellowship programs that had been reserved for women or members of minority groups. As part of the legal settlement, the university system denied having engaged in illegal discrimination, but said it would open all of its paid fellowship programs to members of any race,

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