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07/12/2006 Gender-based admissions tailoring needs mending By: Gerry Garibaldi In its landmark 2003 affirmative action decision, Grutter v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court upheld the use of narrowly tailored race-conscious admission policies to achieve a "critical mass," citing the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body. But it seems that the definition of narrow tailoring depends on who's holding the scissors. Advertisement Should the Grutter decision apply to gender-conscious admissions as well? The tailors at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine appear to think so. Admissions figures for the entering Class of 2005, obtained in response to a...

How the Schools Shortchange Boys, by Gerry Garibaldi In the newly feminized classroom, boys tune out. Since I started teaching several years ago, after 25 years in the movie business, I’ve come to learn firsthand that everything I’d heard about the feminization of our schools is real—and far more pernicious to boys than I had imagined. Christina Hoff Sommers was absolutely accurate in describing, in her 2000 bestseller, The War Against Boys, how feminist complaints that girls were “losing their voice” in a male-oriented classroom have prompted the educational establishment to turn the schools upside down to make them more...

Quake aid shortfall baffles By Robert Birsel 2 hours, 21 minutes ago MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - The United Nations reacted with bafflement and dismay on Thursday at the world's failure to come up with quick cash to help save hundreds of thousands of Pakistani quake survivors before winter sets in. ADVERTISEMENT Relief workers were only a few days away from grounding the vital helicopter fleet which is the only way to get help quickly to the remote mountain villages flattened by the October 8 quake, which killed more than 54,000 people, one U.N. official said. "When the money runs out,...

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