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Opinion: Does Affirmative Action Help College Students?
By not in system - AOL NewsAll across the country, high school seniors are gearing up to apply to college. Many of them assume that the best thing they can do to ensure a bright future is to attend the most prestigious school that has accepted them -- even if their race, athletic prowess or rich uncle helped them get in. But according to a December report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, that may be a mistaken strategy -- at least for students hoping for a degree in science or engineering. The extensive research compiled in that report concludes that accepting an affirmative action leg-up probably hurts a ...
C-SPAN Supreme Court Series: Race and Affirmative Action
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThis is the seventh in a series of Politics Daily columns to complement C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The broadcasts will afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken by the justices and the lawyers before them in arguments that shaped the laws that have shaped our lives in countless ways. The latest tape in the series, focusing on the regents of the University of California v. Bakke affirmative action case in 1978, will be heard on C-SPAN Radio ...
Opinion: Sen. Webb Uses Privilege to Play Racial Politics
By Michael Arceneaux - AOL News(July 27) -- It's hard not to automatically dismiss an op-ed titled "Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege" written by a man who has profited, whether he acknowledges it or not, from precisely that privilege. In his piece for the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., claims that government-orchestrated diversity programs are marginalizing white workers. Webb sets out the classic contrarian viewpoint that affirmative action programs, which are intended to promote fairness, do anything but, and have instead actually "damaged racial harmony." The argument is a familiar one, but the ...
Ginsburg's Affirmative Action Lesson
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyWhy is anyone surprised at Ruth Bader Ginsburg's statement that she was considered for a position at Columbia because of affirmative action? As Ria states in her post, affirmative action didn't make her smart or prepared or exceptional. She already possessed those qualities. It just put her name on the list. ...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I Am a Product of Affirmative Action
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyEmily Bazelon has an interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Tuesday's New York Times, in which she talks with the judge about both Sonia Sotomayor's impending confirmation and Ginsburg's own role as the sole woman among the nine members of the high court. One of the most interesting points comes when Bazelon asks what she thinks of Judge Sotomayor calling herself a product of affirmative action. Says Ginsburg: "So am I. I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972. Every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil ...
Firefighters Case Looms Large for Sotomayor
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWhen the Supreme Court issues its final rulings of this term on Monday morning, the White House and senators from both parties will be watching most intently for the results of one particular case. That case is Ricci et al. v. DeStefano et al. , a reverse-discrimination case in which 20 firefighters from New Haven, Conn., known as the New Haven 20, are suing the City of New Haven over the civil service test the city administered as a part of the promotion process for the fire department. **UPDATE- The Supreme Court has reversed the Ricci decision, on a 5-4 vote.** ...
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