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...willing to have those conversations" about financial aid, says Amy Grieger, college counselor at Northfield Mount Hermon, a prestigious Massachusetts prep school. What troubles Grieger as well as many college admissions officers is that the latest wave of merit-based scholarships is undermining efforts to promote economic and racial diversity, because it handicaps the lower-income kids, who might not be first in their class. "As a system, we're not serving those students very well," she admits...
Concerns focus on what critics see as unfair targeting of nonviolent offenders as well as the practice's potential for racial discrimination...
Portland and Sacramento have suffered similar fates. Jason Williams has apparently spent more time passing the bong than thrilling the crowd with his dizzying array of acrobatic assists. His behavior towards the fans has been less than stellar as well, as seen by his recent tirade of racial epithets at a Golden State...
...accused the university of using race as a predominant factor in admissions, "giving minority applicants a significantly greater chance of admissions than students with similar credentials from disfavored racial groups...
McWhorter intertwines these dramatic events with an unsettling account of her father's descent into racial vigilantism. For decades, she writes, he boasted about his Klan affiliations and the unaccounted-for nights he spent "at one of his civil rights meetings." But when she finally confronted him, he admitted that he had not been deeply involved with the Klan because "I would have had to kill people." Writes McWhorter: "I couldn't quite grasp the grandiosity that would make someone falsely claim intimate knowledge of the most horrible crime of his time." Neither can we. Like McWhorter, the best...