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...would be done,” he said. “Right now they’re saying, ‘You can be in corporate law, you can be a public relations lawyer, you can be a clerk.’ That’s a much more neutral message. Harvard can do better than...
Even the national media is catching on. In a Dec. 1 profile of Professor Feldstein, the New York Times recognized that Ec10 is hardly neutral in its readings or its lectures. The article reports that over the last two decades, thousands of Harvard undergraduates have received a decidedly anti-tax, free-market-leaning introduction to economics. Professor Juliet Schor, an Economics professor from Boston College, was recently invited by students to speak at Philips Brooks House on the ideologically limited nature of Feldstein’s course. Schor, who actually used to teach a section of Ec10, said that...
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After California outlawed the use of any racial classifications in public university admissions, the percentage of black and Hispanic students admitted to the best law schools in the UC system declined precipitously—in spite of these schools’ efforts to recoup minority enrollment by supposedly race-neutral means such as socioeconomic class. At UCLA law school, the percentage of admitted students who are black declined from 10.3 percent to 1.4 percent from 1996 to 2000. Berkeley, despite scrutinizing each application for evidence of “talents that were not identified by test scores or other standardized...
...legal arguments against Michigan’s policy are quite obvious. As President Bush argues, the equal protection clause of the Constitution outlaws racial quotas, and it prohibits the use of race-based policies when race-neutral ones are available. There are many other methods that admissions officers could use to diversify the ethnic makeup of their campuses—enhancing minority outreach programs would seem to be a good first start. Ultimately, illegal and illegitimate racial preferences only serve to increase racial consciousness and fuel racial antagonisms...