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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by basso, May 2, 2012.

  1. vlaurelio

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    Warren’s law degree is last among Harvard’s elite staff

    Embattled Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren graduated from the lowest ranked law school of all Harvard Law School professors--and nearly all Ivy League law professors--shedding further light on the importance her claim to be Native American was to advancing her career.

    After Harvard hired the aspiring law professor, they noted that she was the first-ever minority woman due to her 1/32nd Cherokee lineage. The claim, not something she has ever touted publicly before, surfaced last week and has been dogging her campaign ever since.

    That “box checking,” as critics call it, likely played a role in her Harvard hiring especially when her background is compared to those of the other near-100 Harvard Law School professors and assistant professors, according to an analysis of law schools the professors attended. Most graduated from Harvard, and all from the nation’s top 10. Warren graduated from Rutgers University in Newark, ranked 82nd by Top-Law-Schools.com.

    What’s more, only Rutgers has current law school professors who graduated from Rutgers. And in the analysis of the law school degrees of the roughly 350 Ivy League law school professors provided by a Warren critic, only one graduated from a lower-ranked law school than Warren, a Yale professor who attended the University of Nebraska Law School, ranked 89.

    While it is largely viewed as admirable that universities consider diversity in their staffs and new students, Warren’s minority status has come under attack by minority groups who consider it cheating. A group of minority legal institutions, for example, just last year passed a resolution decrying “box checking” by people who claim to be Native-American but who have no legal status or membership in tribes.

    Her claim has since been erased from legal directories, though she told the Boston Herald that she is proud of her roots dating back to a great-great-great grandmother.

    The issue, mocked in some media, could hurt her chances in Massachusetts where she is in a dead heat with Republican Sen. Scott Brown, especially among blue collar independents who frown on career cheating.
     
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    The creepy statist made a video:

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    Do you even know how URM works?

    I'm tempted to wonder if you can understand what Warren says. I'll create a new topic where there can be a debate of substance if you deem it off-topic for your irrelevant steam pile. We'll see how well-justified your beliefs are when you cut out the bulls**t.
     
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    So let me get this straight: People who used to complain about people complaining about W's legacy and gentlemen Cs are now complaining about another person's academic achievement. I'm shocked.
     
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    BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIINNNNNNG.

    Seriously, is this stuff really an issue for you?? I can't see how this is significant or controversial from any perspective. If you're going to dig for controversy, at least make it interesting... or funny.

    For example, I enjoyed the Obama eating dog pictures! I'm still not sure what's so bad about it, but it's amusing at least.
     
  9. basso

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    My father married a cherokee, my mother's people were ashamed of me.

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    Welcome to the right wing Bizarro World:

    Zimmerman = hero
    Warren = villain.
     
  12. vlaurelio

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    QFT!!
     
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    Another thread with basso whining about race.
     
  14. basso

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    The mystery masked mas was smart, and got himself a Tonto.

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    That took you 11 days? I bet your head hurts after putting in so much effort.
     
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    Fordham piece called Warren Harvard Law's 'first woman of color'

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    Don't give yourself an ulcer over it, hmn?

    Oh look, you and hightop are posting lots of new threads. Such joy. Let me go look at another.
     
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    Some Indian drummers they're without a care
    I may run away
    With Big Chief Sun-of-A-Bear

    And I'll have totem poles
    Tomahawk
    Small papoose
    Which will go to prove
    I'm an Indian too

    and Pow Wow Chow?
     
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