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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the Justice Department threatening a lawsuit constitutes escalating.[/quote]

Anyone can threaten a lawsuit, that doesn't mean the suit is meritorious.[/quote]

Escalating and meritorious are two different things.[/quote]

That is true. You are correct that the Justice Department is escalating its threats. Nothing else has changed about whether their case has any merit, so really this isn't news beyond showing how the Justice Department is flailing.[/quote]

I think it shows how Harvard is stonewalling. If they have nothing to hide then why not produce the requested documents.[/quote]

[b]Exactly.  I'm sure the data is damning.[/quote][/b]

And plenty of non Jewish whites with high test scores that are denied entrance compared to Jewish whites. That will never be investigated. Corruption and Hypocrisy.

Data "are".  Data is plural which you would know if you went to Harvard.  You obviously didn't read anything that was posted.  This is three-year-old litigation involving claims by the Asian American community that they are being discriminated against when they have superior scores but are not allowed into the Ivies in representative numbers.  the claim is identical to the anti-Jew sentiment and limits on the number of Jewish students admitted in the 50s and early 60s.  Harvard is not producing the documents because it is "stonewalling".  It has claimed the information is protected by FERPA.  This is standard litigation posturing.  The OP went off the rails not understanding what this litigation is about.  Just google Seth Waxman Harvard litigation.  The case has nothing to do with Harvard allegedly discriminating against minorities, URMs, Hispanics, Jews or the poor.  It's about Asian Americans with the best test scores and GPAs not getting into the Ivies.[/quote]

I'm aware that's it's plural.  I'm also aware that only the most pedantic out there care anymore.  From the WSJ: "Most style guides and dictionaries have come to accept the use of the noun data with either singular or plural verbs, and we hereby join the majority."

I'm also well aware that this case is about Asians with the best test scores being denied access.  If/when the data comes out, it will be very illuminating.[/quote][/quote]

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