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Michael Barone

Entries for August 02, 2006

Diversity outweighs freedom on campus; Faculty members win grant for law school diversity research

August 02, 2006 04:11 PM ET |

Here are a couple of observations from my assistant, Brian Sopp:

Diversity outweighs freedom on campus

On June 29, the National Association of Scholars released a study of university websites revealing what Stephen Balch, president of NAS, calls "an obsession with diversity unparalleled in any other sector of American opinion leadership." The report, entitled "Words to Live By: How Diversity Trumps Freedom on Academic Websites," found that the number of references to diversity on the websites of the top 100 universities in the "America's Best Colleges 2006" edition of U.S. News & World Report exceeds references to American ideals such as freedom, liberty, democracy, and equality. In contrast, a representative sample showed that the number of references to words such as freedom exceeds references to diversity on the websites of corporations, religious organizations, political parties, mainstream media, popular blogs, and labor unions.

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Happy birthday; The new media

August 02, 2006 02:56 PM ET |

Happy birthday

This is the first anniversary of baroneblog. Thanks to my editors, present and past, at U.S. News, who have made this possible, and to my readers, who have made it worthwhile. This week I'm busy promoting the paperback edition of The New Americans. Anyone who would like to improve my Amazon.com ranking is invited to do so.

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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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