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...current leaders of the group go into a room, dish about the nominees, air out their dirty laundry and eventually settle on compromise candidates. It all sounds very noble, but inevitably ends up turning into a vituperative venting of insecurities, an exercise in exorcising. (Sample justification for rejecting a candidate??and I swear this is verbatim from a recent election: “I just don’t think she has the intellectual capacity to be a vice president of this organization.”) True, it is often quite satisfying to see the world in this...
...ideal, we support Michigan’s fight to preserve its affirmative action programs. The system followed by Michigan relied on the accepted standard for affirmative action in higher education, namely that race or ethnicity can be used as one of many factors in deciding a candidate??s admission. This standard, which was based on Harvard’s admissions policy, has been in place since the Supreme Court’s 1978 Bakke decision and should be continued...