{"id":93819,"date":"2016-04-19T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93819"},"modified":"2016-04-19T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:22:15","slug":"harvard-critic-ron-unz-faces-scrutiny-on-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93819","title":{"rendered":"Harvard critic Ron Unz faces scrutiny on donations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Globe<\/a>: Conservative software engineer Ron Unz, who led a successful 2002 ballot initiative that severely limited bilingual education in Massachusetts, has rounded up four other candidates \u2014 including Ralph Nader \u2014 on a platform of making Harvard tuition free for undergraduates and questioning its use of race in admissions.<\/p>\n

The race veered into new territory last week, after opponents of Unz brought to light his funding of some authors and researchers with views critics brand as white supremacist, including several who write for a website that professes \u201cdiversity per se is not strength, but a vulnerability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unz, a member of the Harvard class of 1983, defended his donations to VDare.com writers and others, including $600,000 to Gregory Cochran, who posited in an article that a \u201cgay germ\u201d causes homosexuality, and $24,000 to Steven Sailer, who wrote that combining economic populism with \u201cwhite party\u201d issues would win the presidency.<\/p>\n

Unz, who is also running for US Senate in California, said he does not agree with or support the positions taken by all the writers, including Cochran and Sailer, he supports financially but wants to provide an assist to \u201calternative media.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI most certainly do NOT stand behind everything said or written by everyone with whom I\u2019m friendly, whose writings I publish, or even who have been the recipient of my financial support over the years,\u201d Unz said in an e-mail last week.<\/p>\n

As part of his Free Harvard\/Fair Harvard campaign, Unz is also pushing for more information about the university admissions process, which prior analyses, he said, found tilted against Asians in favor of less-qualified minorities.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Harvard is facing a lawsuit from a coalition of Asian-American groups, also claiming it discriminates against Asians in admissions. The groups seek the same information Unz wants, about how Harvard chooses whom to admit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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