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Yale

Asian groups target Ivy League for racial discrimination

A coalition of over 100 Asian-American groups is filing an administrative complaint with the United States Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights against three Ivy League schools, accusing them of illegally discriminating against Asians in admissions. The complaint against Yale University, Brown University, and Dartmouth College is

American

Diversity, race, ethnicity, and privilege

I am an American. That designation being insufficient for purposes of the diversity-accountants of the modern civil-rights movement, I am a straight, cis-gendered male of European ancestry, particularly Irish. Apparently, this means that I am the product of privilege. I am, in the sense that that I was born into

diversity

Top Obama aide pushes diversity in national security ranks

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's national security adviser says America's top diplomatic and defense brass needs to become more diverse. Susan Rice says minorities still make up less than a fifth of senior U.S. diplomats, and less than 15 percent of top military and intelligence

Harvard University

Affirmative action battle brewing at Harvard

CAMBRIDGE — An organization currently suing Harvard, alleging that the university discriminates against qualified Asian applicants, is now fighting the Ivy League institution's efforts to force it to disclose its membership list and funding sources. Describing Harvard's request as "a fishing expedition," Patrick Strawbridge, an

Charlie Baker

Memo to Gov. Baker: Quotas are the opposite of fair

Governor Charlie Baker recently broke new ground by making Massachusetts the first state in the nation to make lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered-owned businesses the beneficiaries of government set-asides. The new "supplier diversity" order means that in a few years, a certain percentage of contracts entered into by

affirmative action

Racial diversity, elite colleges, and Justice Scalia

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ran headlong into the leftist meat grinder by questioning whether college admission of blacks with academic achievement levels significantly lower than the rest of the student body is beneficial to blacks. His question came up during oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas, wherein

Massachusetts

A veteran of race-based preference fight voices support for Texan

WASHINGTON – Jennifer Gratz said Monday she hopes that Abigail Fisher, a Texan whose case against a race-based university admission policy has been taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court, will keep refusing to buckle against the weight of liberal backlash. "It's almost becoming less about Abbie

Texas

Supreme Court torn over affirmative action at colleges

WASHINGTON (AP) — Torn as ever over race, the Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed whether it's time to end the use of race in college admissions nationwide or at least at the University of Texas. With liberal and conservative justices starkly divided, the justice who almost certainly will dictate