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...idea of admissions offices at America's top colleges posting specific limits on the number of minorities they admit seems unlikely. This does not deny that racial discrimination exists; it only asserts that institutions which claim to shape a free, educated, and democratic society cannot afford to show bias so crudely...
...question at hand is not whether institutions discriminate through mechanical, university-wide limits on enrollment. It is whether universities discriminate against individuals, and whether that specific discrimination adds up to bias that singles out racial minorities on the basis of skewed admissions criteria or processes...
...totally accurate, comprehensive scope of the composition of a class at specific points throughout the applications process," said Eun. Thus, it would be difficult for the Committee to keep track of the exact number of minority admittees, and virtually impossible to establish any kind of systematic bias against a specific ethnic group...
...anchorman has ever aroused such passion. For conservatives who remember his days as President Nixon's nemesis, Rather is the very embodiment of what they perceive as the media's liberal bias. When Senator Jesse Helms, the right-wing Republican from North Carolina, launched a campaign in 1985 to take over CBS, he urged supporters with pointed glee to buy up CBS stock and "become Dan Rather's boss." Many TV news traditionalists are no fonder of Rather: he is too high-pitched, too image conscious, too well paid...
...find it particularly sickening that Moses compares the situation in Israel to that in South Africa. In the first place, if Israel was similar to South Africa, we would not be subjected to bias in the press, because the foreign press would be banned altogether. The Israeli army is controlling an occupation it never wanted. Arabs in democratic Israel are given equal citizenship and voting rights and Jews. Whereas the goal of Zionism is peace and equality with the Arabs, that of apartheid is suppression of an "inferior" race. Have the Afrikaaners been oppressive because there haven't been...