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...Mark Adomanis??s column “Affirmative Action Returns” (November 30) is both thoughtful and intelligent. As an immigrant, with Asian and Hispanic roots, I have often wondered who made the decision that Asians were over-represented and, as such, were not considered part of the minority pool in the college admissions process. I suspect that those in the positions of power, dare I say, the white power elite, probably made those decisions. What is infuriating about this process is commentators’ tendency to generalize. First, there are many different subcultures that tend...
...editors: Mark Adomanis?? comment, “Foreign Affairs” (Apr. 3), was alarming and contradictory on its own terms. Adomanis contends that “the world is too competitive a place to have students wasting a quarter of their college years” on study abroad. But given that global competition, don’t internationally-educated Americans more easily compete for foreign contracts and visitors? At a time when misperceptions of the United States abound, won’t international friendships and human understanding better position our country to triumph in ongoing ideological battles...
...editors: I think that Mark Adomanis?? comment today (“Foreign Affairs,” Apr. 3) voices an ignorant viewpoint. His claim that semesters or years spent overseas offer only drinking stories and bragging rights is not reflective of the study abroad experience in general. That many return with such shallow stories is undeniable, and makes one sorry for the “quarter of the college career lost;” but then again, what would those same people have been doing so differently back home that would “maintain America?...
...Mark A. Adomanis?? comment (“The Beginning of the End?” Nov. 15) has the merit of bringing to the fore important issues related to the riots which recently occurred in France. We read the editorial with great interest, but were very surprised, and occasionally disheartened, by some of Adomanis?? assumptions and statements. The goal of these remarks is to present a different perspective on the riots and to add the factual information that may be useful to readers of The Crimson...
...Adomanis?? correlation between those people who are obsessed with material items and status with those people who are secular insinuates a two-way street between those two characteristics. That relation is not only uncharacteristic of many secularists, but also is as offensive as stating that people who kill to try and enforce their beliefs tend to be religious...