Editorial
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...The complaint: "Imagine my confusion, therefore, when I received your impressive mail solicitation for new subscribers...
...Department of promotion 15 From a kind, but annoyed subscriber, we received the following: "I love the magazine...
...It's pretty straightforward, pretty cut and dried," Dr...
...Now the university defends its admissions policy to promote the benefits of diversity in the student body...
...e in these cases, however, is not the meaning ity, but the purpose of a university...
...Commonweal 6 March 9, 2001...
...Far from blessed, Samson's acting out conforms to the classic pattern of "antisocial personality disorder," at least as that malady is defined by the American Psychiatric Association's official diagnostic manual...
...For some affirmative-action supporters, the evolution toward diversity is problematic...
...Yes, it must train scholars and contribute to the expansion of knowledge...
...Unmanned, yet again i Samson, you will recall, had a certain-and ultimately fatal-attraction to women of suspicious, namely Philistine, pedigree as well as a reputation for roughhousing...
...Why send me a new member promo...
...If the studies showing the success of affirmative action are reliable, the extension . e the academic integrity of the institution, but wi i actually contribute to its improvement...
...Eric Altschuler told the New York Times (February 20...
...One way for the university to address these questions is to voluntarily and periodically review its admissions policies in light of new demographic data, new sociological studies of affirmative action's impact, and the current debates on affirmative-action trends...
...By the time Delilah weaseled the secret of his strength out of him, Samson seemed ripe for a rude comeuppance...
...Should recent immigrants benefit from affirmative-action programs originally designed to help black Americans...
...I subscribe myself and send an annual subscription to friends...
...In the plaintiffs' view, higher education is a means to individual advancement: therefore admissions must be strictly meritocratic (a notoriously amorphous standard itself...
...Certainly affirmative action opponents think the d-word opens a Pandora's box of racial and ethnic gerrymandering...
...The explanation: Paul Q. Kane, Commonweal's ever-vigilant business manager (and a pretty kind guy himself) replied: "You received the recent promotion mailing because we are working to build a base of new subscribers...
...Benton, but to qualify as bona fide your minority has to have more than one person in it...
...But a public university also has social and moral obligations...
...Civrt_ R,Fctrs ,COMM I S$ fdry I sympathize with your plight, Mr...
...Readers so plagued could recycle Commonweal's promotion mailing, or better, give it to a friend (or enemy...
...There was that juvenile stunt of setting fire to the tails of 300 foxes...
...That's the good part...
...Then he picked up the jawbone of an ass and slew a thousand Philistines...
...I am sorry that you received the promotion mailing unnecessarily...
...The plaintiff in the pending suit against the University of Michigan Law School, for example, is an older, so-called "nontraditional" woman applicant...
...Scores and grades, they argue, are the only things that should count...
...Extending the benefits of education to all groups within society is one such obligation...
...Still, Samson was blessed, and even his weaknesses fit neatly into God's plan...
...From the editors: We are sorry, too...
...Samson's storied behavior, it seems, conforms to a "pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood...
...Maybe he or she would like to subscribe...
...Where would that leave wayward souls like Jacob and David...
...Initially, t e of Michigan adopted affirmative action in an effort to provide an admission's boost to groups who had previously faced barriers in education and employment...
...This information is vital to the university's continual refinement of its goals in embracing affirmative action...
...Although we try to eliminate duplicates and the names of subscribers, they sometimes slip through the cracks because they are listed differently (for example, a subscription may be under a spouse's name, or it may use initials rather than the actual first name...
...Might not she bring diversity benefits to the classroom too...
...Incorrigible...
...If diversity is the good to be achieved, why not expand affirmative action to include Pakistanis, Norwegians, Arabs...
...The moral and religious question seems to be: Why weren't these difficult children medicated...
...Won't the goal of providing opportunity to injured groups be obscured...
...Put on the waiting list at the law school, she argues that her scores and grades would have earned her admission had she been a member of a minority group...
...This means we have to purchase lists from other publications...
...The university sees its mission in a broader context...
...When he finally hooked up with Delilah and her sneaky shears, he had already spread destruction and chaos far and wide...
...Not so fast, say the authors of a recent letter to the Archives of General Psychiatry...
Vol. 128 • March 2001 • No. 5
