Kevin M. Kruse: Yeah, they weirdly shut up when that topic comes up.

As everyone knows, when a university hires new faculty, they just stack all their credentials up in a row and whichever one is highest gets the job. Easy peasy.

A lawsuit filed against Northwestern University opened a new front in the legal battle against affirmative action, alleging that its law school hires less-qualified people of color and women over White men for faculty positions in violation of federal anti-discrimination laws.

Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiringwapo.st The lawsuit, filed by a prominent attorney, alleges the university’s law school gives hiring preference to women and people of color.

Before affirmative action it was always a pure, some might even say lily-white hiring process.

Oh yeah, pure meritocracy. Your Harvard advisor would call his old Yale roommate at Princeton and tell him you merited a job there.

If you claim to want a meritocracy end legacy admissions and then we can talk

Yeah, they weirdly shut up when that topic comes up.

Yeah why has my family attended here and donated all this money just to see people with higher grades and scores and more interesting and representative life stories get in

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