President Joe Biden said he "strongly, strongly disagreed" with a Supreme Court decision to strike down the decades-long use of affirmative action in college admissions.
The court's conservative majority overturned admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, saying race can no longer be considered as a factor in university admissions. The landmark ruling overturns generations of affirmative action, which began in the 1960s as a way to increase diversity after the hard-won success of the civil rights movement.
Chief Justice John Roberts said that, for too long universities have "concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice."
Justice Clarence Thomas — the nation's second Black justice, who had long called for an end to affirmative action — wrote that the decision "sees the universities' admissions policies for what they are: rudderless, race-based preferences designed to ensure a particular racial mix in their entering classes." However, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent that the decision "rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress." |
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| Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, 24, is international student who recently graduated from University of Waterloo |
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Did a Harvard professor find fragments of an alien spacecraft? |
After spending years studying the night skies for signs of extraterrestrial life, Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes he has found proof of their existence at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Professor Loeb has just completed a $1.5m expedition searching for signs of a mysterious meteor dubbed IM1 that crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014 and is believed to have come from interstellar space.
The 61-year-old told The Independent he oversaw a team of deep-sea explorers who found 50 tiny spherules, or molten droplets, using a magnetic sled that was dropped from the expedition vessel the Silver Star 2km underneath the surface of the ocean. |
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