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Should Affirmative Action Be Terminated? Part II
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Item Title Should Affirmative Action Be Terminated? Part II
Guest Botstein, Leon
Guest Guinier, Lani
Guest Lichtman, Judith L.
Guest Graglia, Lino A.
Guest Abram, Morris B.
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedJuly 23, 1996
Description

In the free-for-all follow-up discussion, he who talks the fastest sets the tone--and in this case, that means that Professor Graglia's favorite topic, college admissions, gets the bulk of the air time. But that's fine: it's a topic about which all the participants care deeply and speak well. Ms. Guinier: "When you use tests to automatically admit [a group of people]... without regard to their ethics, to their character, you are basically asserting that your value is simply: Can you think fast and have you been brought up by a family that has the resources to coach you to take this test? ..." Mr. Graglia: "Unfortunately we cannot ask applicants to law school: 'Are you highly moral? Are you going to behave ethically?' They're all going to say yes, and the least ethical will probably say yes the most persuasively."

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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 30 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
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Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S1096
Record Number80040.1367
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