Word: legacyism
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Unfortunately, any change in the criterion for admission will cause someone else to cry foul. In Hsu's plan, Harvard would de-emphasize the role of legacy parents and the importance of a strong extracurricular record. However, alumni would obviously balk at their reduced status, and as a future alumnus...
However, unjust restrictions on minority admissions do exist at Harvard and at universities nationwide. The stark difference between the 13.3 percent acceptance rate of Asian students and the 17.0 percent rate of their white peers makes this fact undeniably clear. To understand why, examine closely the factors the Admissions Office...
Legacy, in short, is no justification for discriminating against a racial minority simply because of their new integration into American life. It is instead a preservation of an old, irrelevent situation.
But a growing number are discovering the legacy of the tap innovators who, during their heyday in the thirties and forties, took their art as far and regarded their art as seriously as better known contemporaries like Charlie Parker and Dizzie Gillespie did with music.
BUT GITLIN also argues that, despite the turmoil and tragedy of the period itself and the radical movement's undignified implosion in the Seventies, the Sixties left a potent political and social legacy that continues to operate in our own day, in forms such as a liberalized racial and sexual...