Filings add to questions on Warren’s ethnic claims

Boston Globe ^ | 5/25/2011 | Mary Carmichael

[bjc]

But for at least six straight years during Warren’s tenure, Harvard University reported in federally mandated diversity statistics that it had a Native American woman in its senior ranks at the law school. According to both Harvard officials and federal guidelines, those statistics are almost always based on the way employees describe themselves.

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The administrator responsible for Harvard Law School’s faculty diversity statistics from 1996 to 2004, the period in question, was Alan Ray, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation who, like Warren, has fair skin, blue eyes, and Oklahoma roots.

But Ray, now president of Elmhurst College in Illinois, said in a statement that he “did not encourage the Law School to list any faculty member as one particular race or ethnicity, including Professor Warren." He further said through a spokeswoman that he “never encouraged any faculty member to list himself or herself in a particular way." Ray added that Harvard "always accepted whatever identification a faculty member wanted to provide," a characterization another highly placed former Harvard administrator backed up.

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For the Boston Globe, this is an extaordinary fact-based and balanced summary of the situation. It provides a number of lines of further inquiry. This is actually pretty good journalism. If so and given the Globe's previous reluctance to explore the issue, then I suspect that someone at the Globe has more of the facts and that Professor Warren's self description as a Cherokee and its role in her hiring is deemed likely to become public.

[bjc]

Via Drudge Report

[COBOL2Java]

Harvard "always accepted whatever identification a faculty member wanted to provide,"

Wow! So this guy could have listed himself as Uranian, or from the Ford Galaxy or something...

[Mouton]

She keeps saying her mom says she is a native american, in small part.

OK, so which is it, are you or your mom lying or are you both lying. Pick one.

[Sidebar Moderator]

To prevent duplication, please do not alter the published headlines. Thanks.

[EDINVA]

One would hope (in vain) that this would highlight the foolishness of diversity mandates, formerly known as quotas, in hiring, promoting, college admissions, scholarships, and all other spheres. It’s just flat out ridiculous and absolutely unAmerican.

[Dr. Ursus]

We’re having heap big bowls of Lizzie’s Bison chili tonite!

[Ole Okie]

We’re having heap big bowls of Lizzie’s Bison chili tonite!

Ugh! Cost heap much wampum?

[shalom aleichem]

The Globe story is plagarized directly from a 2 week old story by Breitbart. This is exposed here. Wasn’t Mike McConagle fired by Globe for such misdeeds?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/25/Boston-Globe-Takes-Credit-for-Breitbart-Scoop