[gailtate]

The University just issued its report about specific quotas to limit Jewish admissions in the 50’s.

https://news.stanford.edu/report/wp-cont...mpSD7KIP14

BC

Not to minimize this because it’s appalling, but wasn’t this true of many/most fancy private schools in that era?  My dad remembered/perceived such school and job discrimination in the time before the Civil Rights Act especially.

What made Stanford's anti-Semitism particularly egregious was that the university issued numerous specific denials for decades after-the-fact, before the smoking gun was publicized.  So the depth and length of the cover-up was unusual.

And, lest we forget or gloss over, the Stanfords--Leland and Jane--were, shall we say, very much people of their time when it came to race, color and creed. Despite their purported mission to "have all children of California become their children" in the absence of their deceased son. Nice, warm and fuzzy fable, but a fable nonetheless. Gotta hand it to the old man, however: he did well and did good, for all the right reasons. His cohort wasn't so generously beneficial to the commonweal.

[gailtate]

The University just issued its report about specific quotas to limit Jewish admissions in the 50’s.

https://news.stanford.edu/report/wp-cont...mpSD7KIP14

BC

Not to minimize this because it’s appalling, but wasn’t this true of many/most fancy private schools in that era?  My dad remembered/perceived such school and job discrimination in the time before the Civil Rights Act especially.

What made Stanford's anti-Semitism particularly egregious was that the university issued numerous specific denials for decades after-the-fact, before the smoking gun was publicized.  So the depth and length of the cover-up was unusual.

And, lest we forget or gloss over, the Stanfords--Leland and Jane--were, shall we say, very much people of their time when it came to race, color and creed. Despite their purported mission to "have all children of California become their children" in the absence of their deceased son. Nice, warm and fuzzy fable, but a fable nonetheless. Gotta hand it to the old man, however: he did well and did good, for all the right reasons. His cohort wasn't so generously beneficial to the commonweal.