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| Today's lead story is about affirmative action. Zachariah Chou says his race may have a planned a role in him being denied from his top colleges, but he still support affirmative action. Happy reading. |
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| By Zachariah Chou |
| Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust once stated that Harvard could fill its entire class twice over with valedictorians. |
| And while I certainly wasn't in the running to be a valedictorian at any point in my K-12 education, I like to think I had a reasonable shot at an Ivy League school when I was a high school senior. |
| I had a perfect SAT math score, 34 on the ACT and 1,000-plus volunteer hours; was debate team president, class president, editor-in-chief of a school publication and principal cellist of a local orchestra; and took some double-digit number of AP classes at my elite, private college preparatory school. |
| In short, I was just like many others vying for the Ivy League – and probably very similar to the anonymous Asian American students who are having their failures exploited by Edward Blum through his lawsuits against Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| I got rejected from those two colleges – and actually from every college I applied to except for one: the University of Florida, a school that does not factor race into its admission decisions. |
Today's Editorial Cartoon |
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| By Nick Sibilla |
| As the Biden administration appears to be preparing an executive order to revive a police reform bill stalled in Congress, one key hurdle to holding law enforcement accountable has been overlooked: the seemingly unlimited power of joint task forces. |
| Designed as a way for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to share resources and expand their jurisdiction, the nation's more than 1,100 joint task forces include thousands of police officers, sheriff's deputies and state troopers cross-deputized as federal agents who collaborate with federal officers. Local and state officers who serve on federal task forces are still on their employing agency's payroll but can easily earn overtime paid by the federal government. |
| Another fringe benefit is even more valuable: legal immunity from constitutional lawsuits. |
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| By Jill Lawrence |
| President Biden has inherited more than his share of trouble. It was past time to leave Afghanistan, though like so many, I wish the U.S. exit from a 20-year war had been planned and executed much, much better and less painfully. If that was even possible. |
| Ukraine is an even more excruciating dilemma. Russia expert Tom Nichols wrote in 2019 that Ukraine-Russia tensions could erupt into World War III. That is why Biden is so right to say it is not an option for U.S. troops to join the fight that may come. |
| Yet the idea of Ukraine taking on Russia by itself is terrifying. Its military is larger than in 2014 when Russia illegally annexed Crimea, in southern Ukraine, but Russia's is still more than four times as big. And that's on top of Russia's cyberattack and electronic disruption capabilities. Meanwhile, as the Philadelphia Inquirer's Trudy Rubin reports, students, accountants, IT specialists, teachers, travel agents and other urban civilians in Ukraine have been training for war with cardboard guns. |
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| This newsletter was compiled by Jaden Amos. |
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