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...After a brief digression about “The Simpsons,” Summers turned to the issue at hand and defended economic reasoning as fully compatible with moral reasoning...
...presidency. Having proofed FM for the past year may well have made me, in the words of FM Chair Ben Mathis-Lilley ’03, “a broken and bitter man,” but I do actually look forward each week to my not-so-brief respite from the dry world of news comp seminars and speech stories—to Tuesday, when I am invested with the sober responsibility of deciding whether it is okay to use the word “douche-cock” to refer to an FAS administrator, or whether calling...
...Bakke, Harvard College submitted a friend-of-the-court brief describing its undergraduate admissions system of giving a “plus” to students from diverse backgrounds, including racial minorities. Justice Lewis F. Powell, expressing the judgment of the court, cited Harvard’s process as a legal way of promoting educational diversity because it did not “insulate the individual from comparison with all other candidates for the available seats.” Harvard’s admissions system, where every application is evaluated individually, is the ideal toward which other colleges should strive...
...white students from consideration for seats set aside for minorities. As such, the University of Michigan law school’s admissions policy—which seeks to enroll a critical mass of minority students—should be struck down. As plaintiff Barbara Grutter argued in her final brief to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, critical mass “is a concept based on numbers.” The fact that critical mass is a vague range of acceptable percentages of minority students means that there is a minimum permissible level of minority representation?...
Harvard’s last two presidents went to great lengths to ensure that diversity could be considered in college admissions. The Bakke brief was submitted under Bok’s tenure, and Rudenstine coordinated an effort by 62 schools to place a full-page advertisement in The New York Times testifying to the importance of diversity in higher education. Summers’ initial comments—that “race is one of many factors universities should be able to take into account in a well-designed admissions process that promotes the vital educational interest in diversity?...