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critics are suggesting that it adjust its student population to reflect the changing demographic of its neighborhood, now more Latino than black

Latimes, Jul 23, 2001
Commentary by Stephen Downes

. "We have to deal with the fact of demographic change," says Mervyn Dymally, the state legislature's liaison to community colleges. Tim Watkins, president of the Watts Labor Community Action Committee, sums up the opposing view: "It was primarily a black institution with a mission to provide an educational service. [That] doesn't change just because the demographics are changing."TECHNOLOGY:

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