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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Affirmative Action been berry berry good to Elizabeth Warren.
If it wasn’t for AA, Fauxchantas would probably be selling fry bread and breakfast burritos along the side of the road instead of pimping Lenin, Stalin, Castro and Khrushchev up on Capitol Hill.
A Chinese friend told me many years ago that Harvard discriminated against Orientals.
At first I thought 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. - Tom
Where’s affirmative action on the football field and the basketball court. Wouldn’t those students also benefit from the rich diversity of opinions, aspirations and other assorted horse manure?
Oh, by the way, UNC, your AfAm studies scam is showing.
Where’s affirmative action on the football field and the basketball court. Wouldn’t those students also benefit from the rich diversity of opinions, aspirations and other assorted horse manure?
Oh, by the way, UNC, your AfAm studies scam is showing.
“The Harvard lawsuit also contends that the Ivy League university specifically limits the number of Asian Americans it admits each year.”
It was only a couple of generations ago that all top colleges, including Harvard, limited the number of JEWS that could attend. Seems they were worried about JEWS getting too much education, and thus too much wealth and too much power.
Back then they figured that JEWS wouldn’t be able to fight back - I guess the same for Asians now.
Leftist organizations in California fought for a law to restrict the number of Asians at state colleges. Leftist Asian organizations agreed to such restrictions but Asian people overwhelmingly did not.
It is pushed by leftists who want to cut the Asian numbers to make room for more blacks and Hispanics.
This is going on in the Bay Area big time. The good San Francisco public schools like Lowell have a quota on how many Asians will be permitted to attend because they claim they will otherwise be “overwhelmed” by “over-qualified” Asian students.
pure insanity
In Australia they go by scores plus a points system - so you can add some points onto your score if you are Aboriginal, if English is not your first language etc but also funnily enough by postcode (Zip code to you) - if you come from what is deemed a lower socio-economic area you get extra points. It seems like nowhere has a purely merit based system anymore. So good luck getting any help if you are white and living in a reasonable suburb because your parents worked their butts off to make sure you had a good life!
Asian is the new white.
Asians are waking up to this. Maybe more will abandon the Rat party, too.
Harvard needs to recall Bammy’s Degree.
If he has a degree, it was a sham.
I have a brother-in-law who graduated from Harvard in the 60’s with Cum Laude honors. I was very young at the time and told him that’s very impressive. He told me, not really. He said something like 90% of Harvard graduates graduate with some type of honorary title on their degree. I was stunned to know so many graduate with either Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude or Summa Cum Laude.
Bottom line is he’s made a ton of money and he’s part of America’s ruling class. Disgusting though it may be...
Our school district is very heavily Asian. They just have no stigma about being too nerdy or smart. And they work their tails off because they are quite clear on the connection between work and material success and stability in adulthood.
Anybody who is reasonably smart could do what they do if they are willing to put in the extra hours. My son does, and he gets top grades in his Honors classes. His Asian classmates are amazed that they have to compete with the white kid, but they are very good-natured about it, and it is actually a good kind of peer-pressure that they exert on each other.
Also, years ago, when I was at Berkeley, they did a study on which ethnic group was most successful at the college. It was the Koreans. Not due to basic intelligence, but due to the custom of forming study groups and helping each other through tough classes. Sounds like a good plan for anyone, and it beats nursing resentment.
Is Harvard a public university. If not they can let in who they want.
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