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The real Affirmative Action, redux
Jan 15th, 2008 by Sam

It is the opinion here in Cause and Effect World that legacy admissions in college and university admissions are affirmative action programs.

So, if you can’t have affirmative action based on race or sex, why should a public university be allowed to have one based on heredity?

Adam Liptak raises this issue in his column “A Hereditary Perk the Founding Fathers Failed to Anticipate” today in the New York Times.

Apparently, it’s okay to let the children of alumni and/or donors in who do not meet the criteria of the institution (let’s be clear on this – they

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