Mr. Sanders responded with empathy but also with a fiery intensity that evoked his own days as a student activist, when he protested segregated campus housing at the University of Chicago and participated in the 1963 March on Washington.
They might have forgiven that, but not when I wrote a column exposing the dirty little secret everyone else knew: during lunch hour, the campus segregated itself in the quad, with Jews sitting on the steps of Powell Library and gentiles at Royce Hall.
"Many universities already have very strong equalities policies that do not allow segregated events on their campuses.
Privacy is important in Arabic culture and accordingly the campus is segregated by gender, separating the living quarters for single men and women and families.
Lowell was a virulent bigot who urged the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, started an investigation to expose gays and prevent their living in the freshman dorms, believed in segregating blacks in campus housing, vehemently opposed the Brandeis appointment in an infamous letter signed by 55 "protestants," and established quotas for admission of Jewish students.
Like many Middle Eastern university campuses, it is segregated by sex, with women and families living at one end and single men at the other.
It was because Athens, home to the University of Georgia's main campus, itself was still segregated, and many of the stories that the newspaper covered were based in town.
Integrated must be in quotes because dorms, sports, and most aspects of campus life were still segregated.
Within days, the sit-in protests, a crucial element of the Civil Rights Movement, had spread to campuses and lunch counters across the segregated South.
In Derna, a university reportedly started building a wall in the middle of the campus to segregate female from male students, disrupting studies and limiting access.
