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HARVARD AND UNC SUED OVER THEIR ADMISSION POLICIES
ASSOCIATED PRESS ^ | 11/17/2014 | PHILIP MARCELO

Posted on 11/17/2014 5:06:55 PM PST by Beave Meister

BOSTON (AP) -- Lawsuits filed Monday against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argue that affirmative action policies should be banned at colleges across the nation.

The federal suits allege Harvard and UNC rely on race-based affirmative action policies that impact admissions of high-achieving white and Asian American students. The Harvard lawsuit also contends that the Ivy League university specifically limits the number of Asian Americans it admits each year.

The Project on Fair Representation, an Alexandria, Virginia-based legal defense fund, said Monday's filings will be the first in a series of legal challenges against colleges across the country in an effort to ban race-based admission policies outright.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: acc; affirmativeaction; ap; black; fairrepresentation; harvard; ivyleague; obama; racist; unc; warren; white
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To: morphing libertarian

“Is Harvard a public university. If not they can let in who they want.”

Not if they accept Federal money,which they do for scholarships.

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21 posted on 11/17/2014 7:33:32 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

Harvard had billions in endowments and we give them tax money?


22 posted on 11/17/2014 7:38:38 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: morphing libertarian

Yes.


23 posted on 11/17/2014 7:39:34 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

When I’m president, I’ll spend entire first term cutting the budget


24 posted on 11/17/2014 7:42:59 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: morphing libertarian

You’ll get my vote. :-)

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25 posted on 11/17/2014 7:47:55 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

Momentum building


26 posted on 11/17/2014 7:50:09 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Beave Meister
Good. Asians should sue Harvard into oblivion. This lawsuit is long overdue.

No, I'm not Asian.

27 posted on 11/17/2014 8:17:27 PM PST by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

It’s exactly the same thing. But is society honestly prepared to accept a Harvard that is 50 % Chinese (not just, ‘Asian’) ?

I think 50 % of National Merit Semifinalists are Chinese. Maybe I’m wrong.


28 posted on 11/17/2014 9:17:13 PM PST by sunrise_sunset
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To: Capt. Tom
Harvard's discrimination might be racially motivated but my friend thought if Harvard went strictly by qualifications they would have so many Orientals in the school it would affect the white alumni donations.

Assuming that Harvard officials believe the fake transcripts and phony credentials of asian applicants. Which they do.

29 posted on 11/18/2014 1:02:29 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: melsec
It seems like nowhere has a purely merit based system anymore.

Right. Merit is not how communist societies and institutions work. In the Soviet union, they routinely put morons in charge of engineering projects. While the most qualified found a place at the bottom making coffee. It makes sense to the communist mind.

30 posted on 11/18/2014 1:06:19 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Beave Meister

GOOD! Enough of this discrimination against Caucasian and Asians. That’s what it’s been right? Refusing entrance to some based on the color of their skin and allowing others in precisely because of theirs. How do they even spin that anymore?


31 posted on 11/18/2014 5:04:30 AM PST by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: melsec

It’s like rewarding Johnny with cake every week for doing poorly in school (after all it’s not his fault he’s dumb) and straight A Susie gets told she needs to go out and get an after school job to help with the cake fund for Johnny, and then poor Susie’s grades fall because she’s working instead of doing homework. No unfairness there huh? And Susie won’t harbor any resentment will she?


32 posted on 11/18/2014 5:13:05 AM PST by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: kelly4c
It’s like rewarding Johnny with cake every week for doing poorly in school (after all it’s not his fault he’s dumb) and straight A Susie gets told she needs to go out and get an after school job to help with the cake fund for Johnny,

Your analogy describes things perfectly. I see variations of this all the time. Young A-students in grade schooll--they must endure idiotic behavior of the straight D/F-students, and they must endure idiotic activities designed to be suitable for the mentality of the D/F-students, since there are so many of them. And at the end of the day, or week, the A-student is shipped off somewhere to a math/science competition so that he/she can bring home a prize and increase the reputation of the school. While the D/F morons are busy playing ping-pong or basically doing nothing.

33 posted on 11/18/2014 5:43:49 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Assuming that Harvard officials believe the fake transcripts and phony credentials of asian applicants. Which they do.

Harvard should have their own entrance exams to sort out the wheat from the chaff. -Tom

34 posted on 11/18/2014 7:43:52 AM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: Beave Meister
The biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action at Harvard and other elite schools are not blacks, Hispanics, LGBTs, or the handicapped; but rather, they are legatees of alumni, the political elite, and the one percenters who have contributed or are likely to contribute their power, prestige, and wealth to the school. Indeed, I suspect that Bush, Gore, and the Kennedy clan went to Ivy League schools, not because of their brilliance, but because of their family connections. And while Obama is not technically a Harvard legatee, he would not have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law, even under a race-based affirmative action program, if not for well-connected, wealthy Arabs lobbying on his behalf.
35 posted on 11/18/2014 8:08:20 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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