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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe veritas hurts: Kyle Kashuv wasn't owed a spot at Harvard
New York Daily News editorial BoardA young man who two years ago wrote racist and anti-Semitic words isnt going to the nations oldest college after all.
This is fine. While we dont want a world in which people live in eternal fear that their worst teenage moments will be weaponized against them, admissions officers must take not only academic prowess but character into account. Virtuous young men and women get rewarded; those who have said and done nasty things can suffer consequences.
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The veritas hurts: Kyle Kashuv wasn't owed a spot at Harvard (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jun 2019
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Merlot
(9,696 posts)1. College admissions can only judge on "teenage moments"
Actions have consequences, kyle.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)2. He can become proficient in Russian and apply for 100% scholarship in Moscow.
Oops. I just looked at the offerings -- didn't see anything for NAZIs
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)3. He should apply to Liberty U.
3Hotdogs
(12,378 posts)4. Yeah, Liberty U., Liberty Law School,
Federalist Society, then, who knows.
The Supreme Court.