[BostonCard]

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

[BostonCard]

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

[TrumpCard]

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.

[TrumpCard]

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.

[BostonCard]

Indeed, I think it was an open secret, but in Stanford’s case there was a “smoking gun” memo.  Many people believe that similar discrimination is occurring today, particularly against Asian students, but it is being couched in slightly less overt language.

BC

[BostonCard]

Indeed, I think it was an open secret, but in Stanford’s case there was a “smoking gun” memo.  Many people believe that similar discrimination is occurring today, particularly against Asian students, but it is being couched in slightly less overt language.

BC

[cardcrimson]

Found this a few weeks back and thought it germane to the discussion. Hope posting it isn't considered political, it's not meant to be. If the mods think it is, please delete the post and not me.

https://www.newsweek.com/uc-berkeley-law...on-1748218

[cardcrimson]

Found this a few weeks back and thought it germane to the discussion. Hope posting it isn't considered political, it's not meant to be. If the mods think it is, please delete the post and not me.

https://www.newsweek.com/uc-berkeley-law...on-1748218

[81alum]

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.

[81alum]

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.

[BobK]

At Stanford
First Black American mbb player 1952
First Black American FB player and track athlete late 50s

[BobK]

At Stanford
First Black American mbb player 1952
First Black American FB player and track athlete late 50s

[82lsju]

At Stanford
First Black American mbb player 1952
First Black American FB player and track athlete late 50s

How I came to be Stanford football’s first black recruit Morrison Warren '65
...
Stanford had two black football players before me. Ernest Houston Johnson enrolled at Stanford in 1891, its first year of existence, and played one season. Ernest was ignored when he first tried to enroll, but Jane Lathrop Stanford interceded.

Tom Williams, a walk-on running back in 1958, was the first in the modern era. This was after Eddie Tucker ['53] became the first recruited black athlete in Stanford history, joining the basketball team in 1950. Harry McCalla, a star distance runner, was a year ahead of me.

https://stanford_ftp.sidearmsports.com/c...-07_1A2B4C

What It Was Like to Be an African-American Freshman in 1962

A tiny but historic cohort of African-American students entered Stanford on the vanguard of the civil rights movement. This is how it felt.

https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/wha...7b1233518a

Regarding Ernest Johnson

Lost to history for 100 years, Stanford’s first African American student found a new champion, and an old debate was finally laid to rest.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/regardi...cial_click

A short piece on Al Wilburn '67, one of the first African American football players at Stanford. In his senior year he was a team captain and Stanford's athlete of the year. After Stanford he became a doctor.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F6dJr8-...QUrcc/view

[82lsju]

At Stanford
First Black American mbb player 1952
First Black American FB player and track athlete late 50s

How I came to be Stanford football’s first black recruit Morrison Warren '65
...
Stanford had two black football players before me. Ernest Houston Johnson enrolled at Stanford in 1891, its first year of existence, and played one season. Ernest was ignored when he first tried to enroll, but Jane Lathrop Stanford interceded.

Tom Williams, a walk-on running back in 1958, was the first in the modern era. This was after Eddie Tucker ['53] became the first recruited black athlete in Stanford history, joining the basketball team in 1950. Harry McCalla, a star distance runner, was a year ahead of me.

https://stanford_ftp.sidearmsports.com/c...-07_1A2B4C

What It Was Like to Be an African-American Freshman in 1962

A tiny but historic cohort of African-American students entered Stanford on the vanguard of the civil rights movement. This is how it felt.

https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/wha...7b1233518a

Regarding Ernest Johnson

Lost to history for 100 years, Stanford’s first African American student found a new champion, and an old debate was finally laid to rest.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/regardi...cial_click

A short piece on Al Wilburn '67, one of the first African American football players at Stanford. In his senior year he was a team captain and Stanford's athlete of the year. After Stanford he became a doctor.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F6dJr8-...QUrcc/view

[TrumpCard]

Thank you.  What an notable and interesting tangent this thread took.

[TrumpCard]

Thank you.  What an notable and interesting tangent this thread took.

[Snorlax94]

Found this a few weeks back and thought it germane to the discussion. Hope posting it isn't considered political, it's not meant to be. If the mods think it is, please delete the post and not me.

https://www.newsweek.com/uc-berkeley-law...on-1748218

How, how do you find these “articles” to link to, comrade?

It’s sad what has happened to Newsweek:
https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/wha...ffers.html

[Snorlax94]

Found this a few weeks back and thought it germane to the discussion. Hope posting it isn't considered political, it's not meant to be. If the mods think it is, please delete the post and not me.

https://www.newsweek.com/uc-berkeley-law...on-1748218

How, how do you find these “articles” to link to, comrade?

It’s sad what has happened to Newsweek:
https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/wha...ffers.html

[TrumpCard]

An interesting Stanford Mag article on the first significant cohort of African-American students, in 1962. Also contains a brief mention of perceived discrimination against Jews at the time.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/what-it-was-like-to-be-an-african-american-freshman-in-1962

[TrumpCard]

An interesting Stanford Mag article on the first significant cohort of African-American students, in 1962. Also contains a brief mention of perceived discrimination against Jews at the time.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/what-it-was-like-to-be-an-african-american-freshman-in-1962

[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.

[oldalum]

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.

And not just undergrad: for decades there was a quota on admission of Jews to most U.S. Medical Schools.
Why Did the United States Medical School Admissions Quota for Jews End?

[oldalum]

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.

And not just undergrad: for decades there was a quota on admission of Jews to most U.S. Medical Schools.
Why Did the United States Medical School Admissions Quota for Jews End?

[Spiny_Norman]

College admissions were a reflection of the broader society. There were quotas or restrictions on hiring Jews in many professions. When my uncle graduated from law school (#2 in his class) in the 1950s, there was only one large law firm in Kansas City that hired Jews. Even 10 years later, there was only one large firm in Denver that hired Jewish lawyers.

That said, when I was a Jewish student at Stanford in the early 1980s, I don't recall experiencing anything that made me uncomfortable. And I recall plenty of other Jewish classmates (some of whom were children of Stanford faculty).

[Spiny_Norman]

College admissions were a reflection of the broader society. There were quotas or restrictions on hiring Jews in many professions. When my uncle graduated from law school (#2 in his class) in the 1950s, there was only one large law firm in Kansas City that hired Jews. Even 10 years later, there was only one large firm in Denver that hired Jewish lawyers.

That said, when I was a Jewish student at Stanford in the early 1980s, I don't recall experiencing anything that made me uncomfortable. And I recall plenty of other Jewish classmates (some of whom were children of Stanford faculty).

[cardcrimson]

Found this a few weeks back and thought it germane to the discussion. Hope posting it isn't considered political, it's not meant to be. If the mods think it is, please delete the post and not me.

https://www.newsweek.com/uc-berkeley-law...on-1748218

How, how do you find these “articles” to link to, comrade?

It’s sad what has happened to Newsweek:
https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/wha...ffers.html

It found me via Google. Odd, and probably surprising to most here, I spend very little time reading any sorts of news, let alone political news on the internet. Sadly, primarily only the links I find here. . . .

That said, if the content is even half right, somewhat disturbing, don't you think?

[cardcrimson]

Found this a few weeks back and thought it germane to the discussion. Hope posting it isn't considered political, it's not meant to be. If the mods think it is, please delete the post and not me.

https://www.newsweek.com/uc-berkeley-law...on-1748218

How, how do you find these “articles” to link to, comrade?

It’s sad what has happened to Newsweek:
https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/wha...ffers.html

It found me via Google. Odd, and probably surprising to most here, I spend very little time reading any sorts of news, let alone political news on the internet. Sadly, primarily only the links I find here. . . .

That said, if the content is even half right, somewhat disturbing, don't you think?

[BigJohn043]

Found this a few weeks back and thought it germane to the discussion. Hope posting it isn't considered political, it's not meant to be. If the mods think it is, please delete the post and not me.

https://www.newsweek.com/uc-berkeley-law...on-1748218

How, how do you find these “articles” to link to, comrade?

It’s sad what has happened to Newsweek:
https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/wha...ffers.html

It found me via Google. Odd, and probably surprising to most here, I spend very little time reading any sorts of news, let alone political news on the internet. Sadly, primarily only the links I find here. . . .

That said, if the content is even half right, somewhat disturbing, don't you think?

Given that Stanford and other top schools routinely discriminate against different races in admissions I am not sure why this is even a story.  Heck, Jews are probably discriminated against today....

[BigJohn043]

Found this a few weeks back and thought it germane to the discussion. Hope posting it isn't considered political, it's not meant to be. If the mods think it is, please delete the post and not me.

https://www.newsweek.com/uc-berkeley-law...on-1748218

How, how do you find these “articles” to link to, comrade?

It’s sad what has happened to Newsweek:
https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/wha...ffers.html

It found me via Google. Odd, and probably surprising to most here, I spend very little time reading any sorts of news, let alone political news on the internet. Sadly, primarily only the links I find here. . . .

That said, if the content is even half right, somewhat disturbing, don't you think?

Given that Stanford and other top schools routinely discriminate against different races in admissions I am not sure why this is even a story.  Heck, Jews are probably discriminated against today....

[TrumpCard]

Given that Stanford and other top schools routinely discriminate against different races in admissions I am not sure why this is even a story.  Heck, Jews are probably discriminated against today....

Thought better of this response.  I acknowledge the argument that discrimination is discrimination.  I think there's also an argument that this article is about historical discrimination that's different in degree and different in kind from Stanford's current affirmative action policies.  For purposes of this thread, I just want to keep the two separate, rather than get into the merits of affirmative action or the question of whether affirmative action is the equivalent of the historical type of discrimination referenced in this article.  Because I think doing so runs afoul of the politics ban on this board.  Anyway, I sort of agree with your conclusion that this article isn't "news" because everyone already knew that Stanford discriminated against various minorities in the pre-Civil Rights Act era.  But some of the links in this thread remain interesting to me.

[TrumpCard]

Given that Stanford and other top schools routinely discriminate against different races in admissions I am not sure why this is even a story.  Heck, Jews are probably discriminated against today....

Thought better of this response.  I acknowledge the argument that discrimination is discrimination.  I think there's also an argument that this article is about historical discrimination that's different in degree and different in kind from Stanford's current affirmative action policies.  For purposes of this thread, I just want to keep the two separate, rather than get into the merits of affirmative action or the question of whether affirmative action is the equivalent of the historical type of discrimination referenced in this article.  Because I think doing so runs afoul of the politics ban on this board.  Anyway, I sort of agree with your conclusion that this article isn't "news" because everyone already knew that Stanford discriminated against various minorities in the pre-Civil Rights Act era.  But some of the links in this thread remain interesting to me.