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Obama: Stay Away from Notre Dame's Commencement
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Steve Shadowen, The Century Foundation, 5/15/2009

Conservative Catholics have been berating Notre Dame for extending a commencement-speaking invitation to a pro-choice president. We agree that President Barack Obama shouldn't speak at Notre Dame—but abortion has nothing to do with it. Notre Dame practices pervasive discrimination in its admissions policies. Every year the school reserves 25 percent of the seats in its entering class for children of alumni. These "legacy preferences" result in applicants being granted or denied admission based not on their merit but on their ancestry. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.

 
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