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-9 posts tagged "Affirmative action"
Oluwatoni Akintola | Tuesday, February 21, 2023
“I hate to say it, but if you weren’t Black, you probably wouldn’t have gotten into those schools.” Someone at my high school said that to me a few weeks after I got all of my regular decision results back. A Black friend of mine at Yale also had a similar experience during this time.
lettertotheeditor | Monday, November 21, 2022
For the past week, I have been reading “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin; during this time, I have also been reflecting on the Supreme Court hearings on affirmative action that took place on Monday, Oct. 31. On Thursday, while I was reading the book’s chapter on money (Chapter 7), I followed Rubin as she reflected on the
Isa Sheikh | Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Last week, the Supreme Court heard two concurrent cases on the state of affirmative action in college admissions, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. The petitioner in both cases — Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit that has taken issue
Letter to the Editor | Friday, May 7, 2021
The Derek Chauvin verdict has revived last summer’s hopes for transformative social change. The day following the Chauvin verdict, Fr. Jenkins called on the Notre Dame community “to seek justice, foster solidarity and fight racism and bigotry anywhere and in any form.” While a number of laudable teaching and scholarly initiatives have been undertaken throughout the University to
Nicholas Ottone | Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Fresh off winning a Peabody, Hasan Minhaj is riding high. After a stint as a correspondent on modern comedy’s favorite incubator, “The Daily Show,” Minhaj has landed his very own talk show. “Patriot Act” is fast and furious — a cross between “Last Week Tonight” and Minhaj’s stand-up, a condensed “Big Short” with a slick
Letter to the Editor | Friday, February 17, 2017
I belong. I belong to the this University (even after graduation). I belong to this nation. I belong. It isn’t something I’ve always felt confident about, this sense of belonging. Although born and raised in the United States, I grew up with an acute awareness that my last name, Fernandez, marked me as different. It
BridgeND | Thursday, October 6, 2016
The following is a hypothetical conversation between Betty and Elena. Betty: Hey, did you go to that meeting the other night? Elena: The one about affirmative action and women? Nah, I didn’t agree with their position. Betty: Really? You know, I think we should rethink the affirmative action system; I agree with them. Elena: How
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, April 24, 2014
It was with great distaste that I heard the verdict on one of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings. The decision in Schuette v. BAMN, the aforementioned case, concluded that there is no authority in the Constitution of the United States that prohibits the cumulative voter’s determination, in the state of Michigan, to ban the use of
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, April 23, 2014
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court voted 6-2 in Schuette v. BAMN to allow states to place bans on public universities taking race into account when considering admission of prospective students. Perhaps the most striking note about this decision was its margin. On what has been a controversial issue, the ruling was decisively in favor of