Re: NYT: "Harvard Admissions Process Does Not Discriminate Against Asian-Americans, Judge Rules"

" The Trump administration’s rollbacks
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parallel
a major lawsuit against Harvard University
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led by right-wing groups, claiming that Asian Americans and whites have
been victimized by admissions policies that unfairly favor black and Latino
applicants. Last fall, the Trump administration shifted its focus in
civil-rights enforcement
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to
scrutinizing what it called “intentional race-based discrimination.” The
Justice Department officially backed the suit this week
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while the university was filing final briefs in the hopes of avoiding a
trial
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further bolstering right-wing arguments that programs supporting black and
Latino academic advancement are anti-meritocratic and unfairly
discriminatory."  See
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On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:16 AM Mark Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> > There will certainly be continuing tensions over who gets admitted and
> > why.  And rightwing efforts to keep *certain* minorities out will play a
> > role.
>
> Dan,
>
> Who are these rightwingers you speak of?  Efforts from the right to
> influence campus affairs are usually confined to trying to control how
> donations are spent, not admissions.  These rightwingers must be among the
> most frustrated people on God's earth, unless the Ivies are somehow
> uniquely susceptible, which I doubt.
>
> I'm honestly trying not to be obtuse here; I just don't know what you're
> talking about.
>
> Best,
>
> M.
>
>