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Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint

An anonymous reader writes: A coalition of 64 organizations filed a complaint against Harvard on Friday alleging the university discriminates against Asian-American applicants hoping to attend classes there. "Many studies have indicated that Harvard University has been engaged in systemic and continuous discrimination against Asian-Americans during its very subjective 'Holistic' college admissions process." One such study shows Asian-Americans had to score an average of 140 points higher than white students on their SAT test to have an equal chance of getting in. The complaint seeks a federal investigation and demands Harvard "immediately cease and desist from using stereotypes, racial biases and other discriminatory means in evaluating Asian-American applicants."

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  1. Re:Something DOES Stink at Harvard by BlackHawk-666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's because most of the second year syllabus is written and examined in Yiddish!

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  2. Re:Affirmative Action by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why are you spelling Kennedy so funny?