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Moreover, reliance on such criteria promotes unnecessary anxiety among first-year-students. Ironically, it was this very anxiety which induced more than 400 first-year students to sign a petition to deny the Law Review access to their grades. Since this petition was the catalyst for the recent change in policy, the Law Review's emphasis on grades in this sense backfired...
...organizers of the first-year petition say that they will continue their efforts, but many first-year students may have been placated by the Law Review's compromise position. We hope that they will continue to hold out for the total abolishment of grades as criteria for Law Review selection...
...excellence demands that Harvard vigorously seek out such individuals from all corners. Insofar as the current sparsity of minority representation reflects discrimination or inadequate efforts to recruit minority candidates, the majority opinion is justified in its criticism. However, the University should not compromise hiring decisions on the basis of criteria other than qualification...
Literary critics must use new criteria or perhaps none at all to judge such writing, just as the poets themselves constantly employ new methods of expression Obsessive rationalism destroys the beart of poetry, Libby maintains...
...merit' is usually trumpeted as the supreme good which affirmative action undermines, while in reality, anyone can name a thousand and one instances in which factors other than merit were taken into account in, for example, getting a job." First of all, the fact that many employers often consider criteria unrelated to the performance of the job is no invitation to require the addition of racial status to that list. Second, what is especially odious about reverse discrimination is not that it is just another example of an employer considering "factors other than merit" according to his or her personal...