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Asian: The New White

September 20, 2007 - 12:00am
By Tim Krueger

Look at the two people nearest to you. Is one of them Asian? If not, then it’s you!

I mean, it’s not a foolproof experiment, but the point is that there are a lot of Asians at Cornell. So many, in fact, that we can safely label them an overrepresented demographic. So many, in fact, that it just makes sense to rein in the number of Asians we admit.

Sorry, does that reasoning make you uncomfortable? I feel like that argument has been used before somewhere … oh right, it’s the justification that Harvard once used for imposing a ceiling on Jewish applicants. I’ll try to be more original this time.