Word: hargadon
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...very aware that that feeling has to be offset. Some of the brightest students at Stanford and elsewhere are minorities," Hargadon said. "The bottom quarter of our class includes a very diverse group of people, and we don't even have a hockey team," he added...
...Hargadon said the other effect of the controversial decision, which endorsed minority preference in admissions without calling for quotas, is the new strength it has given to "the constituencies who say we don't have enough commitment to minorities...
...Hargadon dismissed that charge as untrue, but added that it could turn into a "self-fulfilling prophecy...
...enough people in the papers say we aren't interested in minorities, then eventually that is what will begin to happen," Hargadon said...
...Hargadon also told the audience of 30 local admissions officials that "no matter how you cut it, we have made a lot of progress in minority admissions. Too much of what has been written is the pathology of it all," he said, adding, "hardly ever do you hear the success stories...