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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the author, a Yale/Oxford/Yale Law graduate who is a law professor at Yale, opines on the evils of elite university culture.  “Meritocracy is a menace"  Talk about embarassing hypocrisy.  The evils of SATs, GPAs to sort applications.  Yet he offers no insight into what would be a better way. Talk about a long article filled with empty calories so he can hear himself speak...lightweight.[/quote]

Person, did you actually read the story?  He does offer insight into a better way.[/quote]

DP. His solution is dependent on the stakeholders who benefits from the current system (school administrators, boards, and donors, primarily) voluntarily deciding to give up the privileges afforded to them by the current system. The only group he doesn't suggest act against their own interest (in the short term at least) is professors such as himself. I am not sure what his exact role is at Yale, but there is no educational institution more emblematic of the system he is railing against than Yale, yet I don't notice him advocating for his colleagues to give up their spots there and migrate to Seattle University or elsewhere. It is also laughable to suggest that th government can fix this problem by threatening to take away tax exemptions unless schools expand and become more diverse - there is zero political will to do that. The government is completely hamstrung from removing tax exemptions even for violations of the existing rules, such as political activism by certain churches.[/quote]

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