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In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Roger Clegg addresses the question of discrimination against Asian students. Of course, selective colleges don’t say, “We’re against those geeky, overly studious Asian kids. Let ‘em go somewhere else!” Rather, they just don’t want to have “too many” of them, so as to have enough room for all the “under-represented” groups, whose students are presumed to add so much interest to the student body. The result is the same, though: some students are rejected on account of their ancestry.