In today's Pope Center Clarion Call, I write about a recent, surprisingly frank piece in the New York Times in which the author discussed her experience as an applications reader for UC Berkeley. She saw through the deceptive fog of euphemisms (such as "stressors") to understand that the school uses "holistic" evaluation to get more of the "diverse" students it wants and reject more of the high-ability students it thinks it gets enough of.
January 8, 2025
The National Association of Scholars condemns the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,” which the members of the American Historical Association passed by 428 t......
January 27, 2025
New FOIA documents grant a window into how the University of Colorado-Boulder, in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, discriminates on the basis of protected class and upholds a co......
February 24, 2025
The American Bar Association must now move beyond suspending the enforcement of its misbegotten rules to the elimination of the rules themselves....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
May 26, 2010
A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....
