Promoting Intellectual Diversity: “Disrespectful” And “Vaguely Fascist”?
Steve Landes (R, Augusta County), my state delegate to the Virginia General Assembly and a very good guy, has introduced a bill to promote “intellectual diversity” and “a free exchange of ideas” on Virginia college campuses (and also, presumably, at the University of Virginia, which doesn’t have a campus; it has Grounds). Marta Cook, Associate [...]
“Diversity” And Defiance: A Must-Read Article
Some Southern states engaged in “massive resistance.” Alabama governor George Wallace “stood in the schoolhouse door” in a vain attempt to prevent the integration of the University of Alabama. As the redoubtable Heather MacDonald documents in this must-read article, the University of California has been more subtle in its resistance to Proposition 209, a constitutional [...]
Ban Racial Profiling? O.K.
“With Democrats now in control” of Congress, the Chicago Sun reports, there is now a widespread belief that a new rigorous measure banning “racial profiling” will pass. With Democrats now in control, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) made it clear the issue will be a priority for him. ‘‘Many law-abiding African Americans, Arab Americans, Latino Americans [...]
Fish Out Of Water
I have had, or at least taken, a number of opportunities to criticize (O.K., even make fun of) the arguments of itinerant academic apparatchik Stanley Fish, who is on record asserting his scorn for “principle” and that he will use any argument to win an argument, whether or not he believes it and whether or [...]
Equality, Difference, And “Certain Sensitivities”
Speaking to a group of Suffolk University law students, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lamented that, now that Justice O’Connor has retired, she feels “all alone on the court.” Of herself and O’Connor, the court’s first female justice, Ginsburg said: “We have very different backgrounds. We divide on a lot of important questions, but we have [...]
Black Graduation Rates
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes data on black graduation rates, nationally and at selective colleges. An apparently not quite full text version of its latest report, published in the Winter 2006/2007 issue, can be found here. Another article, here, ranks leading universities “according to their relative success in attracting, enrolling, and [...]
Colleges Scramble To Find Proxies For Race
An article by Tamar Lewin in today’s New York Times about the effort of universities to avoid the present (if they are located in California, Washington, Florida, or Michigan) or future consequences of being barred from considering race is at once both encouraging and discouraging, as well as being factually challenged in one or two [...]
Absurdity Of The Week/Month/Year/…
According to William Reed, who is identified as being affiliated with something called Black Press International, President Bush has stained the concept of affirmative action …. Under Bush, the office of the Secretary of State became the principal Cabinet affirmative action post; and he managed actions involving the position to the point of gross incompetence. [...]
Discriminatory “Diversity” Database
As it relates to “diversity,” one usually thinks of demographic data as providing evidence (or not) of discrimination. But Tom Bell, a law professor in southern California, has given us good reason to suspect that a database of aspiring law teachers maintained by the American Association of Law Schools is itself discriminatory. The American Association [...]
“It Could Be Anyone…”
The City of Grand Rapids has just taken a concrete step in response to the passage of Proposal 2 that provides a good example of the reach of that proposal, and why “the sky will fall” opposition to it was so misleadingly misguided. GRAND RAPIDS — In the post-Proposal 2 world, where city contracts no [...]
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