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RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, THEN AND NOW The New York Times today published an obituary of retired federal district court judge, William Bootle, who died Tuesday at 102. (Hat Tip to Howard Bashman). Although many of you will not recognize his name, Judge Bootle was one of the courageous Southern judges who upheld the principle of equality when it was, er, considerably less than popular in that time and place to do so.SOWELL ON MISMATCH
5 December 2012. Thomas Sowell has a terrific review of Sander and Taylor’s Mismatch in the Claremont Review of Books. Read the whole thing if you can, but meanwhile enjoy his priceless lede: Anyone who follows public policy issues can easily think of policies that help one group at the expense of some other group. What is rarer, however,is
A HATE CRIME OCCURRED, BUT WHO WAS THE VICTIM? Four years ago today Daisy Lundy, then a second year student at the University of Virginia “of black and Korean background” and a candidate for president of the the student council, claimed that she was assaulted by a student-appearing white male who sneered that “no one wants a nigger to be president.”. This incident, or alleged incident, occurred on the eve of the run-off election. RACE, THE “GREAT ALIBI,” AND THE “TREASURY OF VIRTUE” We are now (and have been for far too long) witnessing a similar dynamic where the history of racism and discrimination provides a “great alibi” to blacks, excusing whatever they say or do, and a “treasury of virtue” to liberals, whose moral superiority is guaranteed forever by their historic defense of minorities. Posted inPolitics.
WHITES AS THE NEW JEWS? Whites As The New Jews? 27 May 2011. It is common to observe that Asians are the “new Jews” — academic over-achieving victims of quotas, now dressed up as “diversity”-based affirmative action. In a striking variation on that theme, the author of the comment I’m about to quote argues that it is American whites who are the new Jews WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “DIVERSITY GOALS” AND“QUOTAS”?
The airport’s new practice will set specific goals for race- or gender-based participation in contracts based on the number of such companies in the Nashville area engaged in relevant types of work. Perhaps “goals” become quotas — or in the words of this article, what some “would consider quotas” — when they are replaced by MICHELLE OBAMA ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AS BLACK PRIVILEGE On Thursday Michelle Obama spoke at a “women’s empowerment event” in Boston, saying among other things that “she sometimes ‘felt like an affirmative action kid’ as a freshman at Princeton University.”. Since she almost certainly was “an affirmative action kid,” I wonder why she felt that way only sometimes as a freshman. Of course, one of the most harmful effects of “ATTRIBUTES” FOR GAYS? Shouting: I doubt this is to promote homosexuality. It is about power. Admitting students used to be a simple process. But affirmative action and other laws and ideas about fairness have changed a clerical function into a substantial bureaucracy with power. DISCRIMINATIONS: STILL OUT ON A LIMB AFTER MORE THAN First, requiring only a bare majority of Senators to confirm a judicial nominee is completely contrary to the history and intent of the Senate. The nuclear option also upsets a tradition and history that says we are not going to change the rules of the Senate by a majority vote. It breaks the rule to change the rule. THE COLOR OF DISRESPECT The respect that I demand of you stems not from arrogance or any sense of self-importance but from my unfailing commitment to your excellence. And when talk about all else blinds us to this reality, then the classroom becomes empty and meaningless. Finally, or almost finally, one more turn of the color wheel: it seems that the Cubanstudent
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, THEN AND NOW The New York Times today published an obituary of retired federal district court judge, William Bootle, who died Tuesday at 102. (Hat Tip to Howard Bashman). Although many of you will not recognize his name, Judge Bootle was one of the courageous Southern judges who upheld the principle of equality when it was, er, considerably less than popular in that time and place to do so.SOWELL ON MISMATCH
5 December 2012. Thomas Sowell has a terrific review of Sander and Taylor’s Mismatch in the Claremont Review of Books. Read the whole thing if you can, but meanwhile enjoy his priceless lede: Anyone who follows public policy issues can easily think of policies that help one group at the expense of some other group. What is rarer, however,is
A HATE CRIME OCCURRED, BUT WHO WAS THE VICTIM? Four years ago today Daisy Lundy, then a second year student at the University of Virginia “of black and Korean background” and a candidate for president of the the student council, claimed that she was assaulted by a student-appearing white male who sneered that “no one wants a nigger to be president.”. This incident, or alleged incident, occurred on the eve of the run-off election. RACE, THE “GREAT ALIBI,” AND THE “TREASURY OF VIRTUE” We are now (and have been for far too long) witnessing a similar dynamic where the history of racism and discrimination provides a “great alibi” to blacks, excusing whatever they say or do, and a “treasury of virtue” to liberals, whose moral superiority is guaranteed forever by their historic defense of minorities. Posted inPolitics.
WHITES AS THE NEW JEWS? Whites As The New Jews? 27 May 2011. It is common to observe that Asians are the “new Jews” — academic over-achieving victims of quotas, now dressed up as “diversity”-based affirmative action. In a striking variation on that theme, the author of the comment I’m about to quote argues that it is American whites who are the new Jews WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “DIVERSITY GOALS” AND“QUOTAS”?
The airport’s new practice will set specific goals for race- or gender-based participation in contracts based on the number of such companies in the Nashville area engaged in relevant types of work. Perhaps “goals” become quotas — or in the words of this article, what some “would consider quotas” — when they are replaced by MICHELLE OBAMA ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AS BLACK PRIVILEGE On Thursday Michelle Obama spoke at a “women’s empowerment event” in Boston, saying among other things that “she sometimes ‘felt like an affirmative action kid’ as a freshman at Princeton University.”. Since she almost certainly was “an affirmative action kid,” I wonder why she felt that way only sometimes as a freshman. Of course, one of the most harmful effects of “ATTRIBUTES” FOR GAYS? Shouting: I doubt this is to promote homosexuality. It is about power. Admitting students used to be a simple process. But affirmative action and other laws and ideas about fairness have changed a clerical function into a substantial bureaucracy with power. DISCRIMINATIONS: STILL OUT ON A LIMB AFTER MORE THAN On Instapundit Glenn Reynolds quotes a New York Times article calling for the end of race-blind auditions for orchestras: “If ensembles are to reflect the communities they serve,” the article asserts, “the audition process should take into account race, gender and other factors.”. To which Reynolds responds: No one ever argues that sports teams, or university faculties, should AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: R.I.P. OR RELEASE 3.0? I have a new article in the Summer 2021 issue of the National Association of Scholars journal, Academic Questions. It argues, among other things, that the new emphasis on “equity” threatens affirmative action as much as it does the increasingly old-fashioned principle prohibiting the state from benefitting or burdening individuals based on their race. THE LEGACY OF DISCRIMINATION / THE DISCRIMINATION OF LEGACIES Legacy preferences may be a bad idea, although they presumably do work to promote loyalty to an institution and to increase alumni contributions. They are certainly inconsistent with a commitment to rely only on pure academic merit, at least some of the time. At others times, however, not: last year at Middlebury College, the thirtylegacies in
A HISTORY ASSIGNMENT FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN On Tuesday night President Biden acknowledged to George Stephanopoulos of ABC News that he was now open to “reform” of the rule allowing Senate filibusters. Since his own deeply held, passionate views on the necessity of the filibuster over the years have been what might charitably be labeled inconsistent — varying in lockstep with which party’s ox was threatened with being gored GEOGRAPHICAL DISCRIMINATION Brian Dickerson, a columnist for the Detroit Free Press, argues that discriminating on the basis of race to promote “diversity” is “essentially the same” as discriminating on the basis of geography for the same end.. Long before affirmative action became part of the American lexicon, the university I attended was seeking to enroll first-year classes that were representative THE SOCIOLOGY OF BIAS, OR THE BIAS OF SOCIOLOGY? In an article on “The Hidden Biases That Shape Inequality” on Monday the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on some papers presented at the plenary session of the recent American Sociological Association annual meeting in New York, a gathering devoted to the theme of “Interrogating Inequality.” Based on the Chronicle’s report, it appears that Inequality took the Fifth. SELF-AFFIRMATION AND “STEREOTYPE THREAT” A total of 243 students participated, divided in roughly equal numbers by race. “This exercise, called a self-affirmation, allows a student to reaffirm that he or she is a good person,” Cohen said. “That helps fight the stress arising from the fear that the negative stereotype could be used against you.”. The study found the average RACIAL PROFILING: PRO AND CON Eugene Volokh has a characteristically interesting post, on racial profiling, taking issue with an OpinionJournal criticism of the judge in lawsuit filed by an Arab-American passenger removed from a United Airlines flight “because the crew wasn’t comfortable with him aboard.”. Eugene points out that “the proper role of racial profiling in fighting terrorism is an interesting an MEDICAL SCHOOL ACCEPTANCE RATES BY RACE AND ETHNICITY We find the same pattern of acceptance rates by ethnic/racial groups for applicants with slightly above average academic credentials. For example, for applicants with MCAT scores of 30 to 32 (slightly above average) and GPAs between 3.40 to 3.59 (average) , the acceptance rates for blacks (86.9%) and Hispanics (75.9%) were much higher than IS DERELICTION OF DUTY AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE? Dana Milbank is not known as a member or fellow traveler of the Tea Party, nor is his employer, the Washington Post, known as a hotbed of Obama criticism, but I found it impossible to read his recent column, The most powerful man on Earth?, without wondering whether dereliction of duty qualifies as a high crime or misdemeanor and thus is an impeachable offense. DISCRIMINATIONS: STILL OUT ON A LIMB AFTER MORE THAN First, requiring only a bare majority of Senators to confirm a judicial nominee is completely contrary to the history and intent of the Senate. The nuclear option also upsets a tradition and history that says we are not going to change the rules of the Senate by a majority vote. It breaks the rule to change the rule. THE COLOR OF DISRESPECT The respect that I demand of you stems not from arrogance or any sense of self-importance but from my unfailing commitment to your excellence. And when talk about all else blinds us to this reality, then the classroom becomes empty and meaningless. Finally, or almost finally, one more turn of the color wheel: it seems that the Cubanstudent
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, THEN AND NOW The New York Times today published an obituary of retired federal district court judge, William Bootle, who died Tuesday at 102. (Hat Tip to Howard Bashman). Although many of you will not recognize his name, Judge Bootle was one of the courageous Southern judges who upheld the principle of equality when it was, er, considerably less than popular in that time and place to do so.SOWELL ON MISMATCH
5 December 2012. Thomas Sowell has a terrific review of Sander and Taylor’s Mismatch in the Claremont Review of Books. Read the whole thing if you can, but meanwhile enjoy his priceless lede: Anyone who follows public policy issues can easily think of policies that help one group at the expense of some other group. What is rarer, however,is
A HATE CRIME OCCURRED, BUT WHO WAS THE VICTIM? Four years ago today Daisy Lundy, then a second year student at the University of Virginia “of black and Korean background” and a candidate for president of the the student council, claimed that she was assaulted by a student-appearing white male who sneered that “no one wants a nigger to be president.”. This incident, or alleged incident, occurred on the eve of the run-off election. RACE, THE “GREAT ALIBI,” AND THE “TREASURY OF VIRTUE” We are now (and have been for far too long) witnessing a similar dynamic where the history of racism and discrimination provides a “great alibi” to blacks, excusing whatever they say or do, and a “treasury of virtue” to liberals, whose moral superiority is guaranteed forever by their historic defense of minorities. Posted inPolitics.
WHITES AS THE NEW JEWS? Whites As The New Jews? 27 May 2011. It is common to observe that Asians are the “new Jews” — academic over-achieving victims of quotas, now dressed up as “diversity”-based affirmative action. In a striking variation on that theme, the author of the comment I’m about to quote argues that it is American whites who are the new Jews WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “DIVERSITY GOALS” AND“QUOTAS”?
The airport’s new practice will set specific goals for race- or gender-based participation in contracts based on the number of such companies in the Nashville area engaged in relevant types of work. Perhaps “goals” become quotas — or in the words of this article, what some “would consider quotas” — when they are replaced by MICHELLE OBAMA ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AS BLACK PRIVILEGE On Thursday Michelle Obama spoke at a “women’s empowerment event” in Boston, saying among other things that “she sometimes ‘felt like an affirmative action kid’ as a freshman at Princeton University.”. Since she almost certainly was “an affirmative action kid,” I wonder why she felt that way only sometimes as a freshman. Of course, one of the most harmful effects of “ATTRIBUTES” FOR GAYS? Shouting: I doubt this is to promote homosexuality. It is about power. Admitting students used to be a simple process. But affirmative action and other laws and ideas about fairness have changed a clerical function into a substantial bureaucracy with power. DISCRIMINATIONS: STILL OUT ON A LIMB AFTER MORE THAN First, requiring only a bare majority of Senators to confirm a judicial nominee is completely contrary to the history and intent of the Senate. The nuclear option also upsets a tradition and history that says we are not going to change the rules of the Senate by a majority vote. It breaks the rule to change the rule. THE COLOR OF DISRESPECT The respect that I demand of you stems not from arrogance or any sense of self-importance but from my unfailing commitment to your excellence. And when talk about all else blinds us to this reality, then the classroom becomes empty and meaningless. Finally, or almost finally, one more turn of the color wheel: it seems that the Cubanstudent
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, THEN AND NOW The New York Times today published an obituary of retired federal district court judge, William Bootle, who died Tuesday at 102. (Hat Tip to Howard Bashman). Although many of you will not recognize his name, Judge Bootle was one of the courageous Southern judges who upheld the principle of equality when it was, er, considerably less than popular in that time and place to do so.SOWELL ON MISMATCH
5 December 2012. Thomas Sowell has a terrific review of Sander and Taylor’s Mismatch in the Claremont Review of Books. Read the whole thing if you can, but meanwhile enjoy his priceless lede: Anyone who follows public policy issues can easily think of policies that help one group at the expense of some other group. What is rarer, however,is
A HATE CRIME OCCURRED, BUT WHO WAS THE VICTIM? Four years ago today Daisy Lundy, then a second year student at the University of Virginia “of black and Korean background” and a candidate for president of the the student council, claimed that she was assaulted by a student-appearing white male who sneered that “no one wants a nigger to be president.”. This incident, or alleged incident, occurred on the eve of the run-off election. RACE, THE “GREAT ALIBI,” AND THE “TREASURY OF VIRTUE” We are now (and have been for far too long) witnessing a similar dynamic where the history of racism and discrimination provides a “great alibi” to blacks, excusing whatever they say or do, and a “treasury of virtue” to liberals, whose moral superiority is guaranteed forever by their historic defense of minorities. Posted inPolitics.
WHITES AS THE NEW JEWS? Whites As The New Jews? 27 May 2011. It is common to observe that Asians are the “new Jews” — academic over-achieving victims of quotas, now dressed up as “diversity”-based affirmative action. In a striking variation on that theme, the author of the comment I’m about to quote argues that it is American whites who are the new Jews WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “DIVERSITY GOALS” AND“QUOTAS”?
The airport’s new practice will set specific goals for race- or gender-based participation in contracts based on the number of such companies in the Nashville area engaged in relevant types of work. Perhaps “goals” become quotas — or in the words of this article, what some “would consider quotas” — when they are replaced by MICHELLE OBAMA ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AS BLACK PRIVILEGE On Thursday Michelle Obama spoke at a “women’s empowerment event” in Boston, saying among other things that “she sometimes ‘felt like an affirmative action kid’ as a freshman at Princeton University.”. Since she almost certainly was “an affirmative action kid,” I wonder why she felt that way only sometimes as a freshman. Of course, one of the most harmful effects of “ATTRIBUTES” FOR GAYS? Shouting: I doubt this is to promote homosexuality. It is about power. Admitting students used to be a simple process. But affirmative action and other laws and ideas about fairness have changed a clerical function into a substantial bureaucracy with power. DISCRIMINATIONS: STILL OUT ON A LIMB AFTER MORE THAN On Instapundit Glenn Reynolds quotes a New York Times article calling for the end of race-blind auditions for orchestras: “If ensembles are to reflect the communities they serve,” the article asserts, “the audition process should take into account race, gender and other factors.”. To which Reynolds responds: No one ever argues that sports teams, or university faculties, should AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: R.I.P. OR RELEASE 3.0? I have a new article in the Summer 2021 issue of the National Association of Scholars journal, Academic Questions. It argues, among other things, that the new emphasis on “equity” threatens affirmative action as much as it does the increasingly old-fashioned principle prohibiting the state from benefitting or burdening individuals based on their race. THE LEGACY OF DISCRIMINATION / THE DISCRIMINATION OF LEGACIES Legacy preferences may be a bad idea, although they presumably do work to promote loyalty to an institution and to increase alumni contributions. They are certainly inconsistent with a commitment to rely only on pure academic merit, at least some of the time. At others times, however, not: last year at Middlebury College, the thirtylegacies in
A HISTORY ASSIGNMENT FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN On Tuesday night President Biden acknowledged to George Stephanopoulos of ABC News that he was now open to “reform” of the rule allowing Senate filibusters. Since his own deeply held, passionate views on the necessity of the filibuster over the years have been what might charitably be labeled inconsistent — varying in lockstep with which party’s ox was threatened with being gored GEOGRAPHICAL DISCRIMINATION Brian Dickerson, a columnist for the Detroit Free Press, argues that discriminating on the basis of race to promote “diversity” is “essentially the same” as discriminating on the basis of geography for the same end.. Long before affirmative action became part of the American lexicon, the university I attended was seeking to enroll first-year classes that were representative THE SOCIOLOGY OF BIAS, OR THE BIAS OF SOCIOLOGY? In an article on “The Hidden Biases That Shape Inequality” on Monday the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on some papers presented at the plenary session of the recent American Sociological Association annual meeting in New York, a gathering devoted to the theme of “Interrogating Inequality.” Based on the Chronicle’s report, it appears that Inequality took the Fifth. SELF-AFFIRMATION AND “STEREOTYPE THREAT” A total of 243 students participated, divided in roughly equal numbers by race. “This exercise, called a self-affirmation, allows a student to reaffirm that he or she is a good person,” Cohen said. “That helps fight the stress arising from the fear that the negative stereotype could be used against you.”. The study found the average RACIAL PROFILING: PRO AND CON Eugene Volokh has a characteristically interesting post, on racial profiling, taking issue with an OpinionJournal criticism of the judge in lawsuit filed by an Arab-American passenger removed from a United Airlines flight “because the crew wasn’t comfortable with him aboard.”. Eugene points out that “the proper role of racial profiling in fighting terrorism is an interesting an MEDICAL SCHOOL ACCEPTANCE RATES BY RACE AND ETHNICITY We find the same pattern of acceptance rates by ethnic/racial groups for applicants with slightly above average academic credentials. For example, for applicants with MCAT scores of 30 to 32 (slightly above average) and GPAs between 3.40 to 3.59 (average) , the acceptance rates for blacks (86.9%) and Hispanics (75.9%) were much higher than IS DERELICTION OF DUTY AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE? Dana Milbank is not known as a member or fellow traveler of the Tea Party, nor is his employer, the Washington Post, known as a hotbed of Obama criticism, but I found it impossible to read his recent column, The most powerful man on Earth?, without wondering whether dereliction of duty qualifies as a high crime or misdemeanor and thus is an impeachable offense.DISCRIMINATIONS
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14 April 2020
Abigail Thernstrom passed away last week. She was an impressive woman, as ably documented by Roger Cleggin
_National Review_. I am proud to say she was a good friend, and she was also quite a force. With so many fools around, it’s especially sad to lose someone who so efficiently refused to suffer them gladly. Posted in And another thing| Say What?
VIRUS ALARMISM … OR NOT14 March 2020
Heather Mac Donald has a typically (for her) superb articleon the
“misguided response to COVID-19.” I encourage everyone to read it.But…
I just sent her the following comments: > This piece is terrific, as usual!>
> I admit, however, to feeling some uncomfortable dissonance between > my view of the social/political situation, about which I completely > agree with you, and my personal situation, where I’ve come to > believe that responding more in line with the extreme/alarmist views > makes the most sense.>
> Specifically, I usually play tennis (doubles), indoors until late > spring, around three times a week, with players in a group of about > 35 or so other geezers. I enjoy this, it’s my main exercise, and > to date, to the best of my knowledge, only 18 cases have been > identified in Virginia, none near Charlottesville. But I’ve > decided to put it on hold for now, with what my wife Helene regards > as encouragement but what is in fact a non-negotiable demand; she, > after all, is also giving up swimming every day.>
> Playing requires “exposure” not only to the three other players > each time but also to all those present at the large sports club> where we play.
>
> Given current knowledge, my chance of coming down with the virus > because of this tennis appear to be ridiculously slim. BUT, in the > absence of testing, our current knowledge of how many people may now > be carrying the virus is virtually non-existent, not to mention by > next Tuesday, Thursday, etc.>
> In short, given the currently apparent slimness of the risk, > continuing to play can be defended as a reasonable gamble. But the > effect of gambling and losing is so extreme that it hardly seems > worth the risk, however small (but in the absence of data, we > don’t know how small). Much as I enjoy the tennis, it’s not> essential.
>
> For what it’s worth, our daughter, Jessie, a very smart physicist > who is not an alarmist, whose keel is always even, recommends this > course. On the other hand, one of the guys in my group, also a very > smart physicist, who until retirement was provost at a prominent > state university, is ambivalent but is continuing to play. (He was > so ambivalent that I told him it was very helpful talking to him > since no matter what I decided to do I could rely on him for> authority.)
I hope my decision not to play will prove to have been alarmist, dumb,and unnecessary.
UPDATE 15 March
Last night the Norfolk _Virginian-Pilot_ reported that Virginia now has 41 confirmed cases of COVID-19, up from 30 the day before. 18 of these are in Northern Virginia — not surprising, since, the _Washington Post_ reports, “the
number of covid-19 cases in the D.C. region is doubling every 48hours.”
If you followed my advice (and link) and read Heather Mac Donald’s article, you should follow it again and read John McCormack’s strongly argued different view in _National Review_. Posted in And another thing| Say What?
BABYLON WANNA-BEE
1 March 2020
As most of you know, the Babylon Bee is a hilarious satire site. In fact, since the Dems, Libs, and Progs have become so deranged it has become so difficult to tell satire from reality that Instapundit has for a long time been referring to the Bee as our newspaper of record.In that spirit,
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WASHINGTON STATE: ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO REVIVE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION4 February 2020
Even readers with short memories will recall that Minding The Campus published my three essays covering the duplicitous attempt of Washington State Democrats to bring back affirmative action, which had been prohibited in a 1998 referendum. But in case anyone has forgotten: A Duplicitous Attempt to Rescue Affirmative Action Washington State Voters Reject Affirmative Action, Again Tricking Posted in And another thing| Say What?
POLITICIZED HISTORY
29 January 2020
I have a new rather long essay on Minding The Campus, “Playing Politics With History,” that I invite — no, encourage — you to see. I often describe myself as a lapsed historian, and writing this reminded me of some old times. One of those times is described in the second half, or perhaps last Posted in And another thing| Say What?
THE NEW YORKER DISCARDS “DIVERSITY,” EMBRACES DISCRIMINATION13 January 2020
I encourage readers to take a look at a new article (because the article is quite long, it will have to be a long look) in The New Yorker by Louis Menand defending affirmative action. I will have more — probably much more — to say about it presently, but at themoment I am
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CAMPUS FOLLIES I
9 January 2020
Folly, noun: lack of good sense; foolishness…. I’ve numbered this post “Campus Follies I” because, for some reason, I have a feeling more examples will follow. In any event, Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that Iowa State University has adopted a policy prohibiting writing messages in chalk on campus sidewalks because, say the policy’s defenders, Posted in And another thing| Say What?
VIRGINIA TURNING BLUE14 December 2019
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LESSONS FROM WASHINGTON STATE11 November 2019
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WASHINGTON REFERENDUM 88: INCOMPLETE RESULTS8 November 2019
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EXTRA! EXTRA! WASHINGTON REJECTS RACIAL PREFERENCE!6 November 2019
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A DUPLICITOUS ATTEMPT TO RESCUE RACIAL PREFERENCE27 October 2019
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HARVARD WON. FAIRNESS LOST. RELEASE 2.015 October 2019
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HARVARD WON. FAIRNESS LOST3 October 2019
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MORE ON MAKING PHYSICS “WELCOMING”20 September 2019
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DOING PHYSICS WHILE BLACK17 September 2019
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