A small sign of panic at Harvard over pending SCOTUS affirmative action case?

October 17, 2022 By Thomas Lifson

Renu Mukherjee of City Journal noticed what Sherlock Holmes would call a dog at Harvard that didn’t bark. In this is the clue derived from the absence of what ordinarily is expected to happen looks like a sign of panic over the arguments being heard by the Supreme Court in the case brought against the nation’s oldest university by Students for Fair Admissions, the plaintiff in the case attacking racial preferences in admissions to Harvard College. SFFA argues that Harvard’s policies limit the number of Asians admitted, allegedly over personal characteristics, as opposed to academic qualifications like grades and test scores.

Here is the Crimson canine that didn’t bark:

Every year since 2013, usually during the first week of September, the Harvard Crimson publishes survey results profiling the incoming freshman class, including their political and social orientations. These feature-length reports have consistently shown that a dominant majority of Harvard’s incoming students identify as politically and socially progressive, with ever-fewer students identifying as conservative. This year, however, the Crimson didn’t publish the feature and didn’t reply to my inquiry about whether they would do so.

Why would the Crimson want to stop proving data on the characteristics pof Harvard’s freshman class when the SCOTUS is deliberating the case?...........Evidently, the allegation that racial diversity yields viewpoint diversity is not true now, if it ever had been. Thus, the argument supporting racial preferences is built on sand, and the left-leaning  Harvard Crimson presumably understands this.............To Read More..

My Take - This was just one of the more obvious unconstitutional rulings by SCOTUS legislating and in effect overturned the very foundational principles of the Constitution.