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For those readers who serve on faculty hiring committees, Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, offers strategies for speaking up when the committee begins to talk about “diversity.” Here are his recommendations, in brief (to read his accompanying remarks in the original article, click here):

1.  I think we need to check with the university counsel on this.

2.  The Supreme Court has rejected the role model justification.

3.  Title VI is not the same as Title VII.

4.  Suppose we were doing X in order to increase the number of white males – would you say that wasn’t discrimination?

5.  Why are we using race or sex as a proxy for something else?

6.  You know, we’re discriminating against some minorities in favor of other minorities.