<p>Memphis, your points are right on, imo. Especially on the naive notion USNA and the Fowler administration exhibited on this. They were really convinced they’d done well. Sounds just like Pelosi and company. They too perceive they’ve achieved so much, despite the fact that 3/4 of the country (more if one merely counts the states, it’s 90%) perceive she, Reid, and our CiC have driven the bus into the wall.</p>
<p>And the point is not to make this a PC discussion. Rather my point is that undoubtedly, Fowler and his staff were merely “taking orders” and when they succeeded in even misguided mandates, they thought it was a grand success while virtually all others were wondering what in the world he was trying to do. A total misread of this one.</p>
<p>And the outcome for 2013, which they DID NOT repeat this year was trumpeting that the diversity admits were among the top ranked among their fellow diversity competitors at secular institutions. But total subversion of comparing that same group to the overall USNA class. They surely perceived readers as being stupid and suckers to the max.</p>
<p>It was like my brother said when he came home from 2nd grade and was asked about how he was doing, having been placed in the lower group …he noted, “Well, I’m the fastest one in the slow group.”</p>
<p>And that is precisely what Fowlers foul-ups achieved. Establishing fast and slow groups, sadly, pre-determined by color and ethnicity. What an enormous disservice to men and women on both sides of the equation.</p>