Word: consciousã
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That opinion went on to compare Michigan’s system to Harvard’s “religious-conscious?? admissions policies under former University President A. Lawrence Lowell in the early 20th century, which gave “preference in admissions to Gentiles as opposed to Jews…to produce a mixture of students in the school that was closer to the proportion that prevailed in society...
Conservative takes on the latter vary. Some claim that “race-conscious?? policies are superfluous because white racism is no longer a significant obstacle to black progress. Others maintain that these programs serve only to intensify the racial divide. Some conservatives argue that the government has no responsibility to consider race because the causes of the racial divide lie within the black community itself: in the innate inferiority of African-Americans (as the infamous 1994 book The Bell Curve suggests) or in the community’s own inadequacy (according to the “black...