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...nondiscrimination policy explains that it is committed to equal opportunity for all persons on the basis of individual merit without regard to characteristics such as race or sexual orientation. While HLS invokes this policy in its arguments for banning the military from campus for its (wrongful, I would say) discrimination against gays, it apparently does not see any problem hosting the many law firms that specify that they are recruiting minority first-year students onlystrongly inferring that non-minority first-years should wait until next year to have a shot at a plum summer...
This hypocrisy directly contradicts the plain text of the policy. So much for equal opportunity on the basis of merit without regard to race...
...arrived at Harvard in 1971 on a National Merit Scholarship, where he lived in Weld as a freshman and quickly took an interest in economics...
...election to the NAS depends on outstanding scientific contributions,” Brauman said. “The scientists are judged strictly on merit...
...striking point to illustrate why it was so crucial: the dumbest rich kids in the country were going to college at the same rate as the smartest poor kids. In other words, a student’s chances of attending college often had more to do with money than merit...