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...rest rely heavily on fatty acids to fry their wares. This is not entirely bad. Fatty acids are the building blocks of dietary fats, an essential part of the human diet. Dietary fats contain a mixture of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids (the difference: saturated fats carry a full quota of hydrogen atoms in their chemical structure, and unsaturated fats do not). Such products as tallow, lard and butter are saturated fats, whereas those like soybean, canola, olive, cottonseed, corn and other vegetable oils are unsaturated. Saturated fats are associated with increases in LDL cholesterol (the bad kind); unsaturated fats...
...going quietly. Every morning, Aziz Ahmed, a Junior Artists Association official, scouts locations from his van. When he finds a production that does not employ junior artists, he works the phones, calling a threatening mob to the set. Ahmed, a burly 39-year-old, heckles producers, demanding a token quota of junior artists, even if it means the extras are "left outside the frame." Most producers comply, or just pay up, to get rid of him. Ahmed admits he has resorted to violence, but says he has no choice. "People say we are quarrelsome and abusive," he says. "But what...
While Faculty were—and still are—split on the transcript question, which the EPC will review again next year, they were universally opposed to instituting a College-wide quota limiting the number of A-range grades. Many argued that a uniform solution made little sense given the variety of classes offered...
Since 1978, lower courts have relied on a somewhat tortured Supreme Court ruling that struck down quota systems and sent white, would-be medical student Allan Bakke to school. But it also ruled that universities could continue to consider applicants' race in the "compelling interest" of diversity. Lower courts have viewed Bakke differently: pro-affirmative action universities in the Fifth Circuit's jurisdiction feel legal victories are unlikely, but those in the Sixth are heartened by the Michigan case. The fact that lower courts have interpreted Bakke in divergent ways may lead the Supreme Court to hear Grutter's appeal...
While the University of Michigan Law School’s continued attentiveness to diversity is appreciated, the “critical mass” approach is a flawed response—simply a quota system by another name. Instead, the law school needs to broaden its view of a diverse academic community, encompassing the idea of both ethnic and socioeconomic diversity. Colleges and universities should diversify their definitions of diversity and their methods for reaching this essential goal...