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...Senate passed a bill yesterday raising by 30,000 this year's quota of temporary visas for high tech workers.The measure would also raise the ceiling to 115,000 for each of the next four years -- almost double the current quota...
...national tragedy? On the contrary. This is showing respect for minority students, treating them as individuals, not statistics. This is caring about their future--academic success, graduation, career--not risking it by artificially assigning them to a school one notch too advanced just to satisfy the moral vanity of quota-driven bureaucrats and politicians...
...father was a victim of quotas, a quota ofone," said Guinier, explaining that when herfather came to Harvard College in 1929 he was notprovided with financial aid because, she believes,money had only been allotted for one blackstudent...
Crimson executives have not denied that discussions took place about the need to diversify the editorial page, given that a majority of the columnists last semester were Jewish. The executives strongly deny, however, that a quota system exists and that "Jewishness" was a factor in an applicant's success. Moreover, Crimson executives have counter-charged that Danilewitz was motivated by sour grapes, having received neither an executive position nor a column...
...feel sorry for [Danilewitz] that he has to make up fictitious quota systems to justify his not getting a position," said former Crimson President Joshua J. Schanker '98. "I'm sorry if he's doing it out of sour grapes...