I remember how it was -- JR
Harvard rejects brilliant Asians in favor of poorly qualified blacks
Although I don't condone it, I can sort of understand what they are doing. If all admissions were on merit, the Harvard student body would have a minority of whites -- mostly Jewish -- and a majority of Asians.
If the Harvard leaders really do have a hankering to see black faces in the student body they could achieve that without loss of standards by recruiting from South India. There are some very bright people there who are also very black
And they are at a high cultural level too. Tamil Nadu is the only surviving classical civilization. Some Tamils below
Townhall has conducted a series of sitdown interviews, in the lead-up to the much-anticipated SCOTUS decisions, with Asian American community members outraged over the Ivy League's racial gatekeeping and affirmative action's trickle-down effects, now seeping into suburbia. As an affront to the race-obsessed Left's forever war on meritocracy, and in unyielding defense of the American Dream, which we, like many, believe is well worth fighting for, here are their firsthand accounts from the frontline:
Jon Wang, Harvard University reject now-attending the Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard hopeful Jon Wang, currently a freshman at Georgia Tech double-majoring in mathematics and computer science, was rejected by the Crimson's guard despite submitting a near-perfect SAT score. Achieving an elusive 1590, just 10 short of the total possible points, Wang outperformed 99 percent of all other test-takers, which also meant he placed among the top 1 percent.
"It's harder to gain acceptance as an Asian American..." Wang, remaining "cautiously optimistic" at the time, recalled his high school counselor telling him, in essence. "They didn't really give me much advice other than to try to appear a bit less Asian."
For example, Wang said, "Don't write your essays about Chinese traditions or things commonly associated with Asian culture."
On paper, Wang was surely a shoo-in for the Ivies: Aside from graduating with a 4.65 GPA, extracurriculars-wise, he was captain of the academic QuizBowl team, a competitive golfer, making headlines at junior tournaments across the country, and co-founded a start-up company that provides golf-data analytics to the Chinese market via an app he had developed the backend code for.
"Obviously, race plays a factor in it," Wang stated, noting that based on SFFA's acceptance-percentage model, his approximately 20-percent possibility of being admitted into Harvard as an Asian American would have skyrocketed to a 77-percent chance of admission if he were Hispanic, with the liklihood climbing to 95 percent if his race was black. "The model's results are pretty clear..." Wang said of the calculations. "The fact that I'm Asian—I don't think makes my accomplishments any less valuable."
Shortly after the Harvard-rejection letter arrived, Wang joined SFFA in hopes of changing the racially rigged game for younger college-bound Asian Americans facing the feat soon as well as applicants of the coming generations. "Maybe my kids in the future," Wang, the son of first-generation Chinese immigrants, mused, "so they don't have to deal with unfairness in the system."
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Prestigious University May Expel Students Who 'Misgender' Trans Peers
In January, Townhall reported how Ithaca College in New York will allow students who identify as "transgender" or "non-binary" to live in a separate residential community that excludes "cis-identifying students." This move was meant to create a "supportive community" for students who identify as LGBTQ+. Shortly after, reports broke that students at the all-women's Wellesley College voted to allow transgender and nonbinary individuals to apply to the school.
Now, another university announced that students who "misgender" a transgender student could face expulsion for doing so.
Students at the University of Oxford in England could be expelled for misgendering their peers under a new "transgender harassment policy."
Regent's Park College unveiled a new "trans inclusion statement" in an effort to combat "transphobia" on campus, according to The Telegraph:
The new policy says that “unlawful discriminatory behaviour, including transphobic harassment or bullying … will be regarded extremely seriously and could be grounds for disciplinary action”.
The statement lists examples of harassment, including “consistently using incorrect titles, pronouns or names to refer to a trans person (‘deadnaming’) especially where this causes distress”.
The college’s students are also banned from “unduly intrusive or personal questioning”, “making jokes about trans people or their trans status” and “denying or disputing the validity and/or existence of a trans person’s identity”.
Students found to have broken the policy may face “expulsion or dismissal”, the statement continued.
In addition, the college reportedly said that it believes "gender reassignment" is not an "exclusively medical" term and that it has "personal" dimensions.
"Individuals perceived as having the protected characteristic of gender reassignment (even incorrectly) are still afforded its protections," the statement said.
Last year, a teacher in Ireland was suspended from his job and jailed for contempt of court after he refused to address a transgender student by their "preferred pronouns," which Townhall covered.
Reportedly, Burke, who teaches history, politics and German, refused to address a "transgender" student as "they" instead of "he." Burke addressed the student by male pronouns. The school then placed him on administrative leave "pending the outcome of a disciplinary process."
"I love my school, with its motto Res Non Verba, 'Actions not words,' but I am here today because I said I would not call a boy a girl," Burke said in court, according to the New York Post. "Transgenderism is against my Christian belief. It is contrary to the scriptures, contrary to the ethos of the Church of Ireland and of my school."
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Just 3pc of tech graduates are job-ready, Australian Information Industry Association survey finds
Only 3 per cent of Australian tech companies believe graduates are job-ready after finishing university, with many taking up to 12 months of training to reach required productivity levels.
The lack of readiness is tightening the overall jobs market, forcing smaller firms that can’t afford to train staff without experience to fork out hefty sums while competing against major companies for highly-skilled workers.
The state of the market amid Australia’s current skills and labour shortage is severely limiting the ability for Australian tech start-ups and small firms to be innovative, Australian Information Industry Association chief executive Simon Bush said.
“Feedback from our members is that on average it takes between six to 12 months to train a graduate and while larger companies can take on that overhead and the cost of training, for smaller companies it is a real handbrake on productivity,” he said.
The 3 per cent job-ready rate, which arrived from the AIIA’s fourth Digital State of the Nation survey, had fallen from 5 per cent in the previous year.
Across the nation, cybersecurity positions are the most in demand in the tech space followed by artificial intelligence roles.
To meet demand, many tech companies had moved away from hiring people university degrees and were actively hiring workers who had recently completed micro-courses and vocational training courses, the AIIA found.
Some of the training provided in short courses was similar to on-the-job learning, and easing the pressures on companies to train staff, Mr Bush said.
“We’re finding that our members really are looking to hire people from non-traditional areas, in other words, non-ICT areas in order to meet demand,” he said. “And in relation to cyber security, micro courses are the what the market wants.”
The local tech market will not be as active as previous years over the next 12 months, with 26 per cent of companies unsure if they would actively hire this year, the survey found.
The pulling back on expanding staff headcounts may drive some pressure down on graduate salaries, which The Australian revealed last year had been as high as $147,000 to $350,000 at the top-paying firms.
“What’s happening with consumers, and cost of living, inflation and interest rates there, companies are not looking to grow their business as much as they perhaps were going to last year in terms of hiring people,” Mr Bush said.
The roles which demand a premium are cybersecurity and AI, with senior staff in those fields in more demand than ever before. “If you are an AI expert in a technology company, right now you are a rock star,” Mr Bush said.
Of those looking to hire, the intention to bring on local workers had grown to 69 per cent, up 5 per cent from the previous years when borders were closed.
The major factor driving companies toward hiring overseas staff was the skills shortage. Labour costs were another factor, cited by 17 per cent of staff, down from 50 per cent the previous year.
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