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...gang culture of an inner city to get a 1500 SAT score would likely gain admission to Harvard, too. Both applicants would fulfill that goal of affirmative action, benefiting from the diversity Harvard provides and adding to it, but the scenario makes brutally clear that affirmative action??s current incarnation, race-based admissions, is one at least partially incompatible with its goal...
Barth finds some of this purpose in baseball. A four-year member of Harvard’s JV baseball team, Barth has spent his college summers, traveling Nicaragua, Mexico, and around the United States as part of the “Athletes in Action?? Christian missionary program, playing baseball and sharing his faith with fellow athletes...
Although Byrd and Mani have very different interests, they have collaborated in council decisions and say they also “bonded” in their “Athletes in Action?? Christian Fellowship...
...depict President George W. Bush in a fireman’s uniform, holding a severed hose in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other. The posters, which advertise today’s Science Center rally marking World AIDS Day, identify Bush as “Africa Action??s Most Wanted...For Fueling the Fire of AIDS.” How utterly tasteless—and totally absurd...
...diversity—what some have called “white” affirmative action??made its way into the report as well. In a small-print footnote squeezed into the bottom of page 22, the schools wrote that “socioeconomic status” was given “significant favorable consideration” by all their admissions boards...