Harvard: Fairness or "Diversity" ?

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"The Female Jordan Peterson" ?
THIS was a great speech, and really needed saying

The Diversity Delusion | Heather Mac Donald

To protestors:  "ARE YOU KIDDING ME? you are the most privileged group in history!"

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No Safe Space at Harvard, unless you are a Leftwing SJW Zombie

Female Harvard Student With MAGA Hat Finds Roommates Searched Her Room For Guns. Then This Happens.

November 30, 2018 News

A female Harvard University graduate student who had a MAGA hat and legally-owned guns in her room was asked by her apartment owner to move out after her roommates reportedly searched through her room and found the guns.

Leyla Pirnie had been living in her apartment with six roommates since September. She told The Washington Free Beacon:

> http://www.madnesshub.com/2018/11/female-harvard-student-with-maga-hat.html

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Is this how Harvard wants the Student body to see itself?

> source:

Diverse, but maybe not fair... and diversity in a direction where White Males are made obsolete?

Do they really expect to get any donations from White Male graduates where they are pursing this vision? 

Check out the Harvard Alumni page on Facebook

> https://www.facebook.com/HarvardCollegeAlumni/

 

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University hosts 'critical look at whiteness' forum...

Fraternities, sororities sue Harvard over single-sex club crackdown...

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The Stakes for the Harvard Trial Are Higher Now That It’s Over

The Ivy has spent the past three weeks being grilled about whether it discriminates in its admissions process. But the legal battle over affirmative action will likely rage until the Supreme Court weighs in.

BOSTON—There was a fog over the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse in mid-October. Harvard was headed to court to defend its admissions policies; a coalition of Asian American students, cobbled together by the conservative legal strategist Edward Blum, was there to challenge them. The group, Students for Fair Admissions, alleged that Harvard had discriminated against them. But there was a broader question: Could the case be the first nail in the coffin of the use of race in college admissions?

As the trial wore on, the surge of people in the entrance to Judge Allison Burroughs’s courtroom turned to a slow trickle. Passionate arguments for diversity gave way to murky debates over the validity of regression models. John Hughes, a lawyer for SFFA, tried to clear the muck in his closing arguments. “All of the claims are important,” he told Burroughs. But SFFA wanted to focus on one: that Asian American students face intentional discrimination in Harvard’s admissions process. SFFA’s argument hinged on the personal rating, one of the metrics the university uses to measure applicants, which the group argues is how Harvard adds a plus factor to students of certain racial backgrounds. The personal rating, Harvard says, is generated using a bevy of information, including teacher and counselor recommendations as well as alumni interviews. “You see the substantial preferences for African Americans and Hispanics in the personal score,” Hughes told the court.

The main question is: If race is a plus for some students, is it also a minus for others? The plaintiffs argue that there is a racial penalty for Asian students. And they allege that implicit bias on the part of Harvard’s admissions officers when reviewing applications is the reason for that supposed minus. “Evidence of bias and stereotyping can suffice to show intentional discrimination,” Hughes said.

Over the course of the trial, SFFA ran both a legal and a public-relations campaign. They leaned on several thorny issues that often frustrate the public: Harvard’s legacy-admissions process, preferences for children of donors, and the advantage that recruited athletes get. But none of that mattered on Friday. The personal ratings, and the alleged use of race in them, was the focus.

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Judge Allison D. Burroughs, the daughter of a Harvard graduate, sought to be a Harvard graduate herself, but did not get in.

How much diversity is necessary, and is the use of race necessary to achieve that goal?

Right now, only one person can answer that question: Judge Burroughs, who will issue judgement on the case. (This was a bench trial, meaning there was no jury.) She is under no obligation to issue an immediate decision. But when her decision does come down, it could have major implications for the colleges that use race when considering applicants. Yes, there are four decades of precedent, but the Supreme Court looks very different than it did in the time of Bakke, or even Fisher v. the University of Texas, another major affirmative-action case from 2016. And the majority of the court now appears more skeptical of policies based on race.

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It is about time we saw this ... so unbalanced has academia become

Now The Unfairness is so blatant

Jordan Peterson, Dozens of Academics Blast Ivy League for Anti-Male Bias

• USC Ph.D. student Kursat Christoff Pekgoz has targeted Yale University and his own school for alleged anti-male discrimination. Now, he's going after Cornell.
• A Title IX complaint cites the existence of women-only centers and scholarships on campus, but notes that there are no men-only counterparts.
• Some BIG names, such as Professor Jordan B. Peterson and scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, have signed onto the complaint.