{"id":243,"date":"2024-02-13T08:11:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T08:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T08:12:00","slug":"raging-bill-reeves-wiedeman-intelligencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/raging-bill-reeves-wiedeman-intelligencer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRaging Bill\u201d &#8211; Reeves Wiedeman (Intelligencer)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAckman\u2019s senior thesis, submitted in 1988, looked at how admissions quotas to limit the Jewish student population in the 1920s echoed what some saw as the unfair treatment of Asian Americans in the \u201980s. Ackman concluded that Harvard was admitting more students from other minority groups simply because \u201cit has been pressured to do so.\u201d He also critiqued the idea that the university was primarily a place for the transfer of knowledge. The real purpose of a university, in a capitalist society, was \u201cto distribute privilege,\u201d Ackman wrote. \u201cThe question, \u2018Who should go to college?\u2019 should perhaps more appropriately become \u2018Who is going to manage society?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/bill-ackman-war-harvard-mit-dei-claudine-gay.html\">https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/bill-ackman-war-harvard-mit-dei-claudine-gay.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAckman\u2019s senior thesis, submitted in 1988, looked at how admissions quotas to limit the Jewish student population in the 1920s echoed what some saw as the unfair treatment of Asian Americans in the \u201980s. Ackman concluded that Harvard was admitting more students from other minority groups simply because \u201cit has been pressured to do so.\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}