Harvard sued over ‘overwhelmingly white’ legacy admissions

[Kamaji]

Harvard sued over ‘overwhelmingly white’ legacy admissions

By Yaron Steinbuch   
July 4, 2023

An advocacy group has filed a federal civil rights complaint against Harvard College, alleging that it favors the “overwhelmingly white” group of legacy candidates — less than a week after the US Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in higher education.

The nonprofit Lawyers for Civil Rights filed the complaint Monday on behalf of Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England and the Greater Boston Latino Network.

The group is challenging Harvard’s “discriminatory practice of giving preferential treatment in the admissions process to applicants with familial ties to wealthy donors and alumni (‘legacy applicants’),” it said in a statement.

“The complaint, alleging widespread violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR),” Lawyers for Civil Rights announced.

The Boston-based group noted that the “complaint comes on the heels of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limited the ability to consider race in college admissions, and argues that it is even more imperative now to eliminate policies that systematically disadvantage students of color.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/07/04/harvard-sued-over-overwhelmingly-white-legacy-admissions/

[mountaineer]

Big difference between a university policy favoring legacy admissions and actual government mandates requiring discrimination on the basis of skin tone. Nevertheless, who really cares? Certain formerly prestigious universities have become a joke, thanks to many years of rejecting qualified applicants in favor of dimbulb legacies and celebrity students like Al Gore III, R. Hunter Biden, David Hogg, Malia Obama, et al.

[Kamaji]

Big difference between a university policy favoring legacy admissions and actual government mandates requiring discrimination on the basis of skin tone. Nevertheless, who really cares? Certain formerly prestigious universities have become a joke, thanks to many years of rejecting qualified applicants in favor of dimbulb legacies and celebrity students like Al Gore III, R. Hunter Biden, David Hogg, Malia Obama, et al.

True enough, which is why I think the suit should fail.

[Kamaji]

If giving preferences to applicants who can demonstrate economic hardship is acceptable on the theory that, because blacks are over-represented in the lower economic strata, due in part to the lingering effects of slavery, and does not constitute racial discrimination even though it ends up granting admission to more blacks, then giving preferences to legacy students is also not racial discrimination, even though, at present, such a policy may end up giving preference to more whites than blacks.

[Bigun]

Big difference between a university policy favoring legacy admissions and actual government mandates requiring discrimination on the basis of skin tone. Nevertheless, who really cares? Certain formerly prestigious universities have become a joke, thanks to many years of rejecting qualified applicants in favor of dimbulb legacies and celebrity students like Al Gore III, R. Hunter Biden, David Hogg, Malia Obama, et al.

Not to mention a faculty that would make Mao conservative by comparison.