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Diversity involves more than skin color and sex. True diversity also considers a person’s political and social ideology. Sadly, that does not seem to be the case at Harvard University.
In a recent class, my professor took a blind poll of all the students’ political affiliations. Of the 40 students polled, I was the only conservative Republican. The vast majority of the class was liberal, including the professor—he had served in the Clinton administration. In...
Is there some value to giving special treatment to race, culture, and gender? The Supreme Court thinks so (Grutter v. Bollinger), and I completely agree. But I am also proposing a paradigm shift to the view that political and social ideologies are equally important factors in true diversity.
President Faust’s letter references Harvard’s 2005 task force that conducted two comprehensive surveys of diversity. The conclusions of that research focused exclusively on race and gender. Harvard spent $50 million on this task force. However, not a dime...
Shouldn’t our country’s greatest minds place a higher value on diversity of thought? We see the viewpoints of our administration in their political affiliations—on July 26, 2004, President Faust contributed $2,000 to John Kerry’s campaign.