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Education Or Re-Education At UVa?

The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia has mandated that all students will be required to take “a new online course on multiculturalism.” University spokeswoman Carol Wood said “the class will be required of all UVa students one day,” but it will begin with undergraduates, probably in Spring 2004. This is one of […]

The Market For (And Of) “Diversity”

I have commented several times about obnoxious race-based school transfer policies (see here and here). Rich, suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, for example, once denied an elementary school transfer request from the parents of a Chinese-American student because allowing it would have reduced the number of Asian-American students at her current school below the number the […]

Whites, Men Lag In College Enrollment, Request Preferences and Subsidies

Actually, I made up the last part of that headline, but the first part is true. An article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education (link requires subscription) describes these and other findings from a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics. According to the 2003 report, the proportion of white students among all […]

Stigma: P = S2

Debate over whether racial preferences stigmatize recipients (and, if so, so what?) by now is old hat. The Blair Affair, however, has brought to the fore the issue of whether Jayson Blair’s fabrications, and the preferences he received that are implicated in his treatment by the New York Times, may have stigmatized all minority journalists. […]

Ethnic Economics (Ethnicomics?)

Several days ago I commented on an article in the Washington Post about Democrats opposing Univision’s attempted merger with the Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation. The article quoted a lobbyist who feared that “the merger would allow Republicans unfettered access to Latinos.” Seconding that interpretation of the opposition is a recent article in Hispanic Business. Some 20 […]

“All The News That’s Fit To Print” … And Then Some

As Mickey Kaus reports, “the NYT Scandal Has Legs!” He links to Carl Swanson’s report in New York magazine that Gerald Boyd, the #2 NYT editor whose fingerprints are all over the Blair scandal, “was himself almost certainly promoted because of his race as a crucial part of Howell Raines’ campaign to become the #1 […]

Constitution and constitution

In a recent generous and polite email, reader Ray Crites gently takes me to task for not emphasizing, or even mentioning, the 14th Amendment in my recent Invidious Ubiquitous Non-Sequitur (IUNS) post discussing why discrimination based on race is not the same as discrimination based on legacy status or athletic or musical ability. In the […]

“Diversity” Or Divisiveness?

I was particularly struck by one item in the long New York Times analysis of the state of the Democratic Party: an effort by Governor Richardson to create a political action committee to train Hispanic political operatives and unify Hispanic voters across current divisions of those with Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban or Central-American ancestors. The […]

Democrats Oppose Hispanic Media Merger

First the Dems oppose Miguel Estrada’s nomination to the Appeals Court, in part, according to some accounts, because they don’t want an appealing Hispanic to be too visible as a possible future Supreme Court nominee. Now, according to an article in today’s Washinton Post, they are opposing the merger of two Hispanic media companies, Univision […]

Pathetic

Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post describes Jayson Blair’s depressingly pathetic book proposal about his victimization by the New York Times. Whatever else can be said about the Blair scandal (and most of what is possible, and some of what is not, has been said), two things seem abundantly clear: 1. The Times did itself […]