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...alma mater did not overpower his legal judgment in a high-profile case on campus military recruitment this past year.Roberts’ opinion in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR) upheld the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, which forces universities to give military recruiters equal access to campuses or give up grants from several federal agencies. Harvard would lose more than $400 million a year.The HLS nondiscrimination policy—adopted in 1979, the same year Roberts received his JD—requires recruiters who use the school’s career placement office to pledge...
...accused of discrimination. In the spring of 1981, Josephine P. Wright, a former assistant professor of African and African-American studies, was denied tenure and then was refused a one-year extension of her contract. Wright, who is an African-American woman, filed a grievance with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging that her request for a contract extension was turned down on the basis of race and sex.Wright dropped her suit after she was offered a position at the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for African and African American Reseach in the fall of 1981.Contacted at the College...
...inclined to think an affirmative action plan is the answer.” Despite the lack of an affirmative action policy for women, the number of women on the Review’s staff has increased. Of the 43 editors from the Class of 2007, 19 are women.ADMINISTERING EQUALITY TODAYThe Review’s selection process has also markedly changed since the disputes of 1981. McGrath said that “the writing competition is [now] the central part of the process.” Today, 14 editors are selected with equal weight on grades and writing competition scores...
...still cannot provide a definitive answer as to why minorities lag behind but that this may be a drawback of affirmative action.“If elite universities did not compete so heavily for blacks these students might attend slightly lesser institutions where they might compete as intellectual equals,” the report stated.Although the Klitgaard Report also mentioned that Jewish students performed better than their test scores predict, Klitgaard now says that he did not have data on Jewish students at Harvard.BEYOND TEST SCORESBlack student groups from the College and graduate schools wrote in a letter...
...Equal parts coach, babysitter and disciplinarian, Emanuel, 46, has groomed Burner and 21 other varsity challengers--seven more than the number of seats that Democrats need to take control of the House. But Emanuel, a lifelong control freak, has a problem that could trip him at the finish line. Although he'll be the one taking the victory lap or the blame, it's not only his Democratic Party. His title is chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)--the "D triple C," as it is known. The national party chairman is Howard Dean, former presidential candidate and Vermont...