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Opinion: Does Affirmative Action Help College Students?

All across the country, high school seniors are gearing up to apply to college. Many of them assume that the best thing they can do to ensure a bright future is to attend the most prestigious school that has accepted them -- even if their race, athletic prowess or rich uncle helped them get in. But according to a December...

Opinion: Sen. Webb Uses Privilege to Play Racial Politics

(July 27) -- It's hard not to automatically dismiss an op-ed titled "Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege" written by a man who has profited, whether he acknowledges it or not, from precisely that privilege. In his piece for the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., claims that government-orchestrated diversity...

Background on affirmative action

Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment, education, and business", usually justified as countering the effects of a history of discrimination.

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