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4 Sep

A COMMENTARY Win!

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JL;DR SUMMARY Naomi Schaefer Riley discusses how her article 'College Board Games' led to the discontinuation of the College Board's Landscape program, which covertly bypassed the Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action in college admissions. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Social Justice  Affirmative Action  Higher Education  Supreme Court Ruling  Naomi Schaefer Riley  Diversity In Education  Policy Change  Admissions  College Board  Racial Preferences 

Places mentioned

Chicago, Illinois, United States
"His remarkable book, making it what it was like to rise from being the son of a milkman into being a member of the intellectual elite in the United States and what that journey was and how his presumptions and expectations as a poor kid with parents who didn't even speak English totally fluently had to learn and be in order to make his way."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"I'll tell you the one school that stood out, and I went to this school for both of my kids, Boston College, because they still actually sort of have like a Catholic mission, even if it's watered down in various ways."
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
"I want to talk to you before we begin about St. John's College."
Massachusetts, United States
"You know how cold weather can give you a cold? That's a myth. How we only use 10% of our brains? That's a myth. You know what else is a myth? Thread count. I fell for it. I've fallen for it several times in my life. And it's, you know, from the sheets you buy when they have high thread counts that it really can be a total fraud because it's simply a measure of fabric density and isn't a good indicator of quality. If you want great sheets, you need to look at thread quality, not count. Bowling Branch uses the highest quality organic cotton threads for long-lasting sheets that get softer over time."
New York, United States
"So New York City as we all know spends you know wild amounts of money on $46,000 a year for people as of as of this year."
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
"How since they themselves said or everybody said if you do this if the supreme court finds this it is going to destroy the educational opportunities of minorities in the United States and somehow Princeton magically mysteriously had exactly the same class with exactly the same kind of ethnic to the supreme court it was if you guys decide this way we will never be able to make sure that we can educate the same percentage of of minority students that we were in the past and magically they came up with a way to do it."
Colorado, United States
"And with us today, very excitingly, we have AEI Senior Fellow Naomi Schaefer-Riley."
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