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Indirectly, Harvard admissions policies played a part in both the circuit court decision on Tuesday and the 1978 Supreme Court case to which it referred, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, which prohibited the use of quotas to achieve diversity but said race could be one criterion for admissions decisions...
...short: Cornel West is black. He is also a daffy, dubious academic. Is it really so unlikely that Larry Summers had the latter, and not the former, criterion in mind...
...initial membership selection round, the sole criterion for nomination is a student’s grade-point average. The committee then considers the difficulty of courses taken, two faculty recommendation letters and the variety of completed course work...
...Whitton, the context of the hit or home run is what it’s all about. But even on that criterion, she is a star...
...excel at university, or in life, is just silly. Many American colleges happily acknowledge that once applicants reach a certain threshold of academic ability, they blend many attributes to obtain a class: geographic and racial variety, athletic and artistic ability, whether Mom or Dad is an alum. That last criterion is not so crass as accepting a parent's proffered check, but the difference is only of degree, not kind. In 20 years or 50, loyalty is expected to breed generosity. Usually it does. Like stealing bread and sleeping under bridges, Rev. Platt's error - linking the quid too closely...