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...bureau soon officially learned the news when colleagues gathered around Golden??s computer to watch the names of winners scroll across the screen. Golden had won a Pulitzer for his series of four articles on “white affirmative action.” The prize comes with a $10,000 award...

Author: By Claire G. Friedman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Alum Wins Pulitzer Prize | 4/7/2004 | See Source »

...Golden??s articles, published in The Wall Street Journal during the first six months of 2003, examined the non-academic preferences that help privileged white students gain acceptance into prestigious universities. Golden summarized these preferences, including legacy and wealth, as “the importance of money to higher education...

Author: By Claire G. Friedman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Alum Wins Pulitzer Prize | 4/7/2004 | See Source »

According to Golden and Gary Putka, the Journal’s Boston bureau chief and Golden??s editor, the articles may have influenced the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the constitutionality of affirmative action. Putka said the stories had been credited for making it difficult for the Court to vote against affirmative action. “[A justice] gave backhanded compliments to the stories,” Putka said. “I think the story may have had something to do with [the ruling...

Author: By Claire G. Friedman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Alum Wins Pulitzer Prize | 4/7/2004 | See Source »

...Golden??s colleagues spoke highly of their co-worker’s accomplishment...

Author: By Claire G. Friedman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Alum Wins Pulitzer Prize | 4/7/2004 | See Source »

Despite this nod to his family’s tradition, Golden??s success led to a major shake-up of the assumptions of his powerful family, Anders says...

Author: By Ella A. Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Geisha Author Golden Found Asian Passion as Undergraduate | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

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