INSIDE HIGHER ED reports that law schools are being scrutinized by the Civil Rights Commission for racial discrimination:

The United States Commission on Civil Rights took up affirmative action at law schools during a five-hour session Friday highlighted by political posturing, jousting over statistics and moments of incivility.

Meanwhile, LaShawn Barber notes a successful lawsuit by white professors who say that their University paid minorities more money on account of their race. I suspect that there’s room for a lot of lawsuits along these lines. The combination of deep pockets and easy proof may well lure a lot of plaintiffs’ lawyers to the field; the harder part will be finding plaintiffs willing to bring suit.

Plus, Michael and Raphael Rosen look at Larry Summers’ last graduation as President of Harvard:

He is greeted by the College students’ stentorian chants of “Larry! Larry! Larry!” — a fitting bookend to the throngs of crestfallen undergrads who surrounded him during his resignation announcement.

What endeared Summers so much to students was his fundamental commitment to restoring the noble values of academia — namely, ensuring that professors actually taught students engaging, challenging material, partook of truly open-minded intellectual inquiry, and resisted the fatuous enticements of simplistic political sloganism.

The commitment to academic integrity that Summers urged upon Harvard transcends the impetuous politics of right and left. Summers himself, who served as President Clinton’s Treasury Secretary, is an iconic New Democrat. Yet his calls for reform were met with implacable hostility from the most reactionary elements at Harvard.

Read the whole thing.