March is Womynx History Month. How will you celebrate?

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THE HONOR DEFICIT

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/03/the-honor-deficit

excerpt:

Many still respect the graduates of elite universities: the Ivy League, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and a few other highly selective institutions. It’s assumed they are for the most part highly intelligent, hard-working people who deserved admission and whose graduating honors were earned. But you have to wonder how much longer that situation will continue, now that universities have turned against meritocracy. As is well known, they are getting rid of standardized tests—the most purely meritocratic standard there is—and instituting new admission protocols based on identity politics. High school grades have long been inflated and are incommensurable in any case; letters of recommendation are notoriously mendacious; lists of extracurricular activities can easily be padded or faked. Wealthy parents can hire professional consultants to give their dim and shiftless progeny an advantage over the poor but worthy.

In a few years, if these trends continue, it may no longer be possible to assume that so-called elite colleges are really admitting and graduating the best and the brightest. The top universities will have lost the ability to confer honor. As the Romans used to say, only the honorable can confer honor, and truly honorable persons will value praise only from those who themselves possess honor: laudari a laudato. Elite universities will be reduced to brand names with large endowments, and their brands will gradually be cheapened.

Fresh in my mind is the story of a student in my department who recently graduated summa c*m laude with a prize-winning senior thesis and the best overall record in Harvard College. He was, in other words, the top student at a university that claims to be the best in the world. He applied to graduate programs in his field of interest. He was rejected by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, and MIT. Through contacts I investigated this shocking outcome, inconceivable even five years ago, and was told that while the student was clearly top-notch, it was just a bad year for white males.
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