Word: legacyism
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Women have suffered a double blow from the Einstein fiasco. First a possible heroine and role model, Mileva Maric, was lost. Then the agent of that loss was turned around and used as a club against them. Einstein's legacy was style as much as substance. The absentminded, frizzed-out...
We have argued in the past that the legacy preference is an ugly vestige of a Harvard long past--an aristocratic policy that violates any notions of fairness and equality of opportunity. Even if Harvard only invokes the legacy preference to decide between two candidates of otherwise identical qualifications, the...
In fact, Harvard officials have attempted to excuse the College's suspiciously low admission rate for Asian-Americans by pointing out that few of them are legacies. In other words, Harvard openly acknowledges that legacy admissions effectively discriminate against minorities.
If ever there were an issue for student activists of all stripes to unite behind, this is it. Yet the campus has been silent on the issue. As far as we know, our own editorial has been the only public protest against the legacy policy this year.
Unlike hiring more minority faculty, a process fraught with complications that will take years to accomplish, eliminating the legacy preference could be accomplished with the stroke of a pen, should the administration ever be pressured into doing it.