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...growing chorus has been speaking out against the Pentagon's parsimony. They're asking why there have not been more élite medals and why there have been huge disparities in the number of awards given by different branches of the military. "We need to look into the criteria used and the timing. There are obvious inequities," says Congressman John McHugh, a Republican from New York...
...fact, in response to public pressure about discrimination and quotas in 1988, Harvard’s Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 asserted that “while Asian Americans are slightly stronger than whites on academic criteria, they are slightly less strong on extracurricular criteria.” These comments are eerily reminiscent of the stereotyping of Jews in attempts to limit their enrollment in the early 20th century...
...Nazis’ misuse of psychiatry is one of the more recent examples. During Operation T4, German psychiatrists branded those citizens who did not meet the Nazi criteria for normality as “feebleminded” and subsequently had them “euthanized” in German psychiatric hospitals. The Soviet government operated in a similar fashion, labeling those who chafed under the yoke of communist dictatorship as insane and forcing them to take mind-altering drugs...
Second, quantifiable academic criteria, especially SAT scores, are not the sole criteria for college admissions. Colleges are first and foremost academic institutions, but when a college chooses each new class, it does so with the knowledge that not everybody who graduates will be launched into an academic career. A college such as Harvard is searching for students who will be leaders in all spheres of the world, and that search requires picking applicants from all walks of life. Moreover, colleges seek to balance their classes with students of all backgrounds, which is difficult to do if some minorities...
...While it is the U.S.’ sovereign right to execute its inmates, and there is disagreement among philosophers as to the morality of capital punishment, it was still uniformly denounced in class as an abominable practice, somehow alien to Western norms. The seminar, then, employs ever-shifting criteria by which to gauge U.S. foreign policy, ensuring that almost every U.S. action is soundly criticized. This chameleon critique means that, should a student have the temerity to defend the United States on certain grounds, Professor Scott will always be prepared to shift the rationale for criticism. It does...