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发帖数: 784 | 1 Thousands of pages of redacted Harvard admissions data—including applicants
’ files and internal correspondence between admissions officers—will
likely soon become public information after a judge’s ruling in a lawsuit
against Harvard Tuesday.
At an April 10 hearing at the U.S. District Court in Boston, Judge Allison D
. Burroughs ruled that, within the next two months, lawyers for Harvard
University and advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions must file two
near-identical sets of previously confidential Harvard admissions documents
—one unredacted set to be filed under seal and one redacted version of the
set to be filed publicly.
Judge Burroughs also moved up the tentative date for a trial in the lawsuit.
Instead of a previously proposed date in early January, the judge, Harvard,
and Students for Fair Admissions discussed holding a trial in mid-October.
Judge Burroughs determined that Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions
must work together over coming months to agree on redactions for the public
set of documents prior to filing. She said the two parties should redact
only information that threatens applicants’ privacy and instructed both
groups they should not redact the files to the point of being “
incomprehensible.”
Students for Fair Admissions, an anti-affirmative action group, first filed
the lawsuit against Harvard in 2014; the suit alleges Harvard discriminates
against Asian Americans in its admissions process. Harvard has repeatedly
denied this accusation.
Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions have previously battled over
whether College admissions data should become public. The judge’s Tuesday
decision appears to walk a middle line between proposals Harvard and
Students for Fair Admissions outlined in clashing briefs last week.
In those proposals, Harvard asked for the documents to “be filed
provisionally under seal,” while Students for Fair Admissions asked for the
documents to be filed publicly.
Harvard has repeatedly argued the documents should remain private, citing
concerns regarding student privacy and proprietary information. Students for
Fair Admissions has insisted the documents must become public to allow
external parties to participate in the case and to submit amicus briefs. The
group has further argued the public has a “profoundly important” interest
in the documents.
It is unclear exactly how many documents may become public under the judge’
s ruling. Harvard’s lawyers wrote in its briefing last week that the
University has given over 90,000 total pages of documents designated as
either “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential” to Students for Fair
Admissions. But only a “small fraction” of these documents will be used as
“exhibits to summary judgment briefs or discussed in those briefs,”
according to the lawyers’ filing.
William F. Lee ’72, the senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, numbered
among several lawyers representing Harvard at the hearing—acting only as an
attorney, not on behalf of the Corporation.
The Department of Justice has taken a strong interest in the lawsuit and in
the confidential status of Harvard’s admissions data, filing a brief Friday
as part of the lawsuit that argued Harvard should make the data public. Lee
sent a letter to Judge Burroughs Monday arguing the Department of Justice’
s intervention was “perplexing” and “entirely unnecessary.” | t**g
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: Thousands of pages of redacted Harvard admissions data—including applicants
: ’ files and internal correspondence between admissions officers—will
: likely soon become public information after a judge’s ruling in a lawsuit
: against Harvard Tuesday.
: At an April 10 hearing at the U.S. District Court in Boston, Judge Allison D
: . Burroughs ruled that, within the next two months, lawyers for Harvard
: University and advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions must file two
: near-identical sets of previously confidential Harvard admissions documents
: —one unredacted set to be filed under seal and one redacted version of the
: set to be filed publicly.
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