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re: Chutzpah! FBI Calls Privacy Extremists Elitist

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Fri Sep 26 04:47:44 1997

Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 10:10:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: Martin Minow <minow@apple.com>
cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <v03102801b05110c4e302@[17.219.103.63]>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>

On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Martin Minow wrote:
> 
> This reminds me of the state legislature that tried to change the
> value of pi to something simpler in order to help students
> struggling with their homework. Fortunately, someone had the
> good sense to bring in a "knowing mathematics cognoscenti" to
> pound some sense into the politicians.

The University of California, now prohibited from making race a factor in
the admissions process, is currently proposing to ignore SAT scores
altogether to improve minority enrollmnent...

--Lucky


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