Posted on 04/08/2018 11:39:11 AM PDT by BBell
(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it might formally enter a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian-American applicants as the agency probes its admissions policies for potential civil rights violations.
The department disclosed its plan in a brief urging a federal judge in Boston to not allow the Ivy League school to file pre-trial court papers and documents provisionally under seal.
Harvard had cited the need to protect the privacy of applicants and students as well as the inner workings of its admissions process, arguing that various documents should be initially filed under seal pending the judge’s review.
The Justice Department said it opposed Harvard’s request, joining Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), the group behind the case, which has urged the disclosure of “powerful” evidence showing Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard is violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
“Harvard College is responsible for protecting the confidential and highly sensitive personal information that prospective students - none of whom asked to be involved in this dispute - entrust to us every year in their applications,” Harvard spokeswoman Rachael Dane said in a statement.
“We are committed to safeguarding their privacy while also ensuring that the public has the access that it is entitled to under the law,” Dane said.
William Consovoy, a lawyer for SFFA, declined to comment.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled universities may use affirmative action to help minority applicants get into college. Conservatives have said such programs can hurt white people and Asian-Americans.
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I have NEVER understood why they never counted Asians as minorities.
Unless the definition of the word “minority” has changed Asians would qualify-——and in 30 years Caucasians will qualify.
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First thing the govt should demand is to see obunghole’s application and subsequent grades...
Seems pretty plain and easy to understand:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Yes, affirmative action needs to end, discrimination like this as well. The only criteria should be, first, preference to US citizens since tax dollars are involved, then academic qualification. Any consideration of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, etc. is complete wrong.
I wonder who was a student at Harvard in the early eighties who may have gotten into law school as an Asian American? Indonesia is Asian, right?
cultural appropriation ?
I don’t quite understand this. Caucasians are already a minority at Harvard
ah well there’s the rub.
Asians don't burn down their own neighborhoods, they have too much money, they don't threaten to kill Whitey, they aren't as reliable nanny-state leftist vote slaves, and they aren't as easily manipulated
Whites were . a minority in the freshman class in 2017.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/whites-a-minority-in-2017-harvard-freshman-class/
harvard is blatantly violating the right of White and Asian student purely on race. They will just not learn that you shall not do that. College is based on MERIT— not race!!
I did not know that——I’m sure that Harvard will remedy that this year./s
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Talk not, Do or Do not.
It has nothing (really) to do with minority status. Also, it has nothing to do with various groups of so-called minorities. It is all about black people. The reason “hispanic†— which is not a race; it’s an ethnicity — students are courted is because schools like to lump them in with blacks to pump up the numbers of “minority†students. However, hispanic students can be found in abundance because anybody who speaks Spanish and hails from Spain, Central, or South America, or has ancestors who hailed from there, can check that box. But don’t be fooled: it is really all about black students. Despite being 13% of the US population, they underperform at every level all through school, yet are the noisiest when it comes to attributing everything to racism. So, elite colleges are obsessed with pumping up the numbers of black students.
I was told over 40 years ago by a minority recruiter for a state university, that Affirmative Action and Diversity were adopted to facilitate discriminating heavily against Jews in the East and Asians in the West, who otherwise would be “disproportionately represented” in higher education.
QUOTING HARVARD: “Harvard is responsible for protecting the confidential and highly sensitive personal information entrusted to us. We are committed to safeguarding privacy while ensuring that the public has the access that it is entitled to under the law ........"
Well, I'll be dammed. Harvard has the same PR person as Zuckerburg and Facebook. And we all know how THAT turned out.
ROTFLOL.
QUOTING HARVARD: “Harvard is responsible for protecting the confidential and highly sensitive personal information entrusted to us. We are committed to safeguarding privacy while ensuring that the public has the access that it is entitled to under the law ........"
Well, I'll be dammed. Harvard has the same PR person as Zuckerburg and Facebook. And we all know how THAT turned out.
ROTFLOL.
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