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The nuclear option: States could take over college admissions

July 17, 2023 -

(Article by Jonathan Turley republished from JonathanTurley.org)

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“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” With those words, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the historic decision to ban the use of race in college and university admissions.

This view has long been supported by the public, and polls suggest the decision was viewed favorably by most Americans, including a significant share of African Americans....

Air pollution in late pregnancy increases NICU admissions, study warns

January 15, 2025 -

A groundbreaking study published in Scientific Reports on January 2 reveals that infants whose mothers were exposed to air pollution during the final month of pregnancy face a significantly higher risk of being admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICU). The study, which analyzed data from 3.6 million single births in the U.S., found that exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) increased NICU admissions by ...

Trump administration slashes refugee admissions to record low, prioritizes white South Africans

November 01, 2025 -

The Trump administration has announced a drastic reduction in the number of refugees permitted to enter the United States, capping admissions at just 7,500 for fiscal year 2026—a historic low—while prioritizing white South Africans fleeing what the administration describes as "illegal or unjust discrimination."

The new policy, published in the Federal Register on Thursday, Oct. 30, marks a sharp departure from the Biden administration's ...

California approves reparations in college admissions, restricts ICE officers from wearing masks

September 16, 2025 -

California lawmakers have approved two controversial measures: Assembly Bill 7 (AB 7) and Senate Bill 627 (SB 627). These bills touch on deeply sensitive issues of race, reparations and federal-state relations, raising significant legal and political concerns.The college admissions law: Reparations or constitutional violation?

Assembly Bill 7 allows the University of California (UC), California State University (CSU) and private colleges ...

Supreme Court’s silence on Boston school admissions raises questions about affirmative action

December 10, 2024 -

Supreme Court’s silence on Boston case sparks concerns over affirmative action consistency

The case, Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, centers on a policy introduced in 2021 that replaced standardized tests with a ZIP code-based quota system for admissions to Boston’s competitive “exam schools.” The policy allocated seats based on applicants’ ZIP codes, reserving spots for students with the highest grade ...

Lawsuit alleging admissions discrimination at top US public high school moves forward

July 26, 2021 -

The U.S. News and World Report rated the school commonly known as TJ as the best public high school in the country in April.

Asian Americans constitute more than 70 percent of the student population at TJ, and for decades Black and Hispanic students have been underrepresented there.

In a bid to increase diversity at the school, the Fairfax County School Board drastically overhauled the admissions process at the school – scrapping a standardized test that ...

Air pollution found to increase emergency room admissions for bleeding peptic ulcers

October 18, 2018 - admissions due to peptic ulcer. The team assessed both single pollutant and multi-pollutant levels, with cardiorespiratory diseases being positive controls.

Results indicated that there were 8,566 emergency admissions for peptic ulcer bleeding among Hong Kong's elderly population from 2005 to 2010. Where there is an increase of NO2 concentration in the air, it resulted in a 7.6 percent rise in emergency admission for bleeding due to peptic ulcer. Other ...

Supreme Court to hear case that could end racial preferences in college admissions

January 27, 2022 -

The Supreme Court, according to an AP report, granted the challenge to the status quo that could bring about the biggest change to the legal framework of college admissions since 2003, when Grutter v. Bollinger concluded that universities may take race into account to develop a "racially diverse" student body that will benefit all students.

Precedents to the said case go all the way back to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (Related: Harvard, Yale brazenly COMMIT to ...

University of California system will no longer consider SAT, ACT scores for admissions

May 19, 2021 -

(Article by Ivan Pentchoukov republished from TheEpochTimes.com)

The change is the result of a legal settlement (pdf) of a lawsuit brought by groups that claimed that the traditional SAT and ACT tests are racist.

Under the settlement, the university, which enrolls some 225,000 undergraduate students, said it won’t consider SAT or ACT scores sent along with admissions applications until 2025. The university further stated that it had no current plan to consider ...

Pittsburgh professor stripped of position after publishing paper questioning affirmative action in admissions

August 08, 2020 - admissions. It is a view that is consistent with some of the members of the Supreme Court in cases like Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action (2014) and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978).

Yet, Wang has been apparently been removed from his position as Program Director of the Electrophysiology Fellowship.

Once again, I am less concerned with the merits of the debate as I am the right to have such a debate.  The action taken ...

Lori Loughlin’s daughter, Olivia Jade, now under criminal investigation for college admissions fraud

April 18, 2019 - admissions scandal?

When the news first broke about the scandal, Olivia Jade was reportedly sailing aboard the yacht of real estate mogul and billionaire Rick Caruso, who chairs USC's Board of Trustees – which is a bit ironic, considering Olivia Jade was admitted to USC under the false pretense of being a recruit to the school's crew team.

We haven't heard much about Caruso as this saga has continued to unfold, as much of the focus has centered around Loughlin ...

The affirmative aftermath: Schools now insist that race had a major impact in admissions

July 04, 2023 -

(Article by Jonathan Turley republished from JonathanTurley.org)

During the Supreme Court oral arguments over affirmative action, Harvard’s counsel Seth Waxman struggled with an argument that race consideration was needed to maintain current admissions for minorities. Yet, he also maintained that it was not a major factor and that the consideration of race with regard to Asian students produced only a “slight disparity” and “had no effect with respect to outcomes....

AFL plans to SUE colleges and universities that continue to implement racist, anti-white admissions policies

July 11, 2023 - admissions, faculty hiring, and law review membership or article selection."

(Related: The corporate media is freaking out over the SCOTUS decision against affirmative action, calling it a Supreme Court in "crisis.")Harvard promises to "comply with the Court's decision"

Miller sent similar letters to the deans of 200 of America's other top law schools, warning them that they, too, need to stop discriminating against applicants based on race or else face a lawsuit ...

Chinese STEALTH DRONES surveilling US energy infrastructure; Fauci emails reveal explosive admissions of covid cover-up

June 03, 2021 -

Today we have the bizarre story about a highly customized stealth drone spotted over the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, AZ. This drone is invisible to air traffic control radar and couldn't even be seen with night vision goggles, reportedly. It was somehow spotted by a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter, which was joined by a Tucson Police helicopter to try to chase down the drone. It evaded them both with high speed maneuvers, climbing to 14,000 feet, then ...

Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock, resigns after making Deep State admissions in bizarre “Spygate” scandal twist

August 23, 2019 - admissions sent shockwaves through Overstock, tanking its stock value and leaving investors shaken and disturbed and causing Byrne to announce that he is stepping down as CEO to be replaced by director Jonathan Johnson, a 17-year veteran of the company and who recently served as head of Overstock’s blockchain firm, Medici Ventures.

“While I believe that I did what was necessary for the good of the country, for the good of the firm, I am in the sad position of having ...

Left-wing elite privilege? FBI arrests dozens of elitists, including Hollywood actresses, in college admissions scandal

March 12, 2019 - admissions tests and that some conspired to bribe coaches and administrators to label their children as "recruited athletes.” Athletes can sometimes get preferential treatment. 

The Wall Street Journal reported that at least some of the institutions named in the suit included Yale University, the University of Southern California (USC), Stanford University and Georgetown University. 

According to prosecutors, some of the parents sought to disguise as charitable ...

Asian Americans fight California’s plan to remove merit-based admissions in education in favor of discriminatory “diversity quotas”

November 27, 2020 -

The Asian American parents who have spoken out about this say that California and its progressives have declared war on Asians, the concept of meritocracy and Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) education.

Places all over California are already beginning to end meritocratic admissions processes. The San Francisco Board of Education, for example, voted to remove this longstanding merit-based process at Lowell High School. Board president Mark Sanchez ...

After dropping merit-based admissions standards, “elite” San Francisco school sees spike in D and F grades among students

June 04, 2022 -

Prior to the change, Lowell High School's failing rate was around 7 percent and some change. Now, it has soared to nearly 25 percent of students receiving either a D or an F during their first semester, according to internal records obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.

The fall 2020 semester saw a slight increase in Lowell's student failure rate due to remote learning requirements that were imposed in response to the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19). When the school started ...

Mass vaccination for influenza a failed strategy, scientists admit… it simply doesn’t reduce influenza-related hospital admissions at all

January 15, 2019 -

The researchers used proportional hazards regression models to assess the efficacy of the pandemic vaccine. Study outcomes confirmed H1N1 and flu-related admissions diagnosed as the H1N1 infection. The experts then further arranged the models into four variables including age group, number of chronic illnesses, seasonal vaccine status and pandemic vaccine status. Data showed that coverage for both the pandemic influenza vaccine and the 2009-2010 seasonal influenza ...