May 26, 2000

'Shoddy' Survey on Affirmative Action

To the Editor:

The survey reported upon in the article "Most Students Oppose Racial Preferences in Admissions, Survey Finds" (May 5) merely adds to the glut of poorly conceptualized and nonobjective scholarship on the subject of student affirmative-action programs. The survey was commissioned by the Foundation for Academic Standards & Tradition, which purports to oppose the "'dumbing down' and politicization of American colleges"; it found that today's

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