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After interning for Minnesota’s then-Governor Jesse Ventura and delivering pizzas the summer after his first year, Krish became involved with the camp after hearing about it from a former participant who’s now at Harvard...
...Then-Governor Michael S. Dukakis declared a state of emergency forcing Harvard to cancel classes for three days...
...third presidential debate in 2000, an audience member asked then-Governor Bush what role affirmative action would play in his administration. After Bush discussed some race-neutral policies he had pursued as governor of Texas, moderator Jim Lehrer asked him if he was opposed to affirmative action. Bush answered, “If affirmative action means quotas, I’m against it. If affirmative action means what I just described what I’m for, then I’m for it.” At that point, former Vice President Al Gore ’69 asked...
During the 2000 presidential campaign, then-Governor George Bush criticized the “soft bigotry of low expectations.” The University of Michigan’s race-based admissions policy offers a clear example of what Bush was referring to. A point system that automatically starts black, Hispanic and Native American applicants 20 points ahead of all others is not only grossly unfair and illogical; it fosters pernicious racial stereotypes...
...idea of an urban ring is not a new one. The proposed project would trace a similar past as old plans for an Inner Belt Expressway—a highway project proposed in the early 1970s that then-Governor Francis W. Sargent cancelled...