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Upon hearing of the appointment, faculty praised Clark for his integrity and scholarship...
Based on her academic record and financial need, Tadesse received a full scholarship to Harvard...
...fact, even McCarty's modest private effort implicates the government in overt racial discrimination in several ways. It will be administered by a state university. The business contri bu tions presumably will be tax-de ductible. Above all, the Oseola McCarty Scholarship Fund--and in deed all private, so-called voluntary affirmative action--causes the govern ment to be racially biased in its po l icy toward private discrimination. The government would quickly step in to stop even a sweet old lady from setting up a whites-only scholarship fund. That would clearly violate about 18 laws, including...
...quite rightly hold the government to a more austere standard of behavior than we do private citizens. That's because the government, when it acts, is operating on behalf of all of us, with our involuntary tax dollars. But Oseola McCarty's scholarship fund is not just a form of misbehavior that we're allowing her to get away with because this is a free country. We think it is a positive, good thing. Don't we? So what's the difference between her admirable endeavor and all that "bad" affirmative action...
ROBERT HUGHES' ATTACK ON CRITICS OF the NEA and NEH has an all too familiar ring. In its partisanship and preference for diatribe over argument, it resembles much of what today passes for scholarship and sometimes art. While a case can be made for preserving the endowments, Hughes' shallow, sneering polemic does it little justice. Indeed, the persistently ad hominem character of his essay only fortifies the impression of an intellectual culture too coarsened to be much worth supporting. Much more than the future of two federal agencies is at stake. STEPHEN H. BALCH, President National Association of Scholars Princeton...