by Patrick J. Buchanan – January 1, 1999

Is the Ivy League the last acceptable bastion of prejudice in America?

That seems a not unfair question, given the reaction to a recent column of this writer.

That column, based on a piece by political activist Ron Unz, noted that the ethnic composition of Harvard’s student body looks like a voter profile of the Greenwich Village Democratic Club.

The percentages of black and Hispanic students at Harvard (7 percent and 8 percent) are approaching their shares of the population, wrote Unz, and the percentages of Asian and Jewish students (20 percent and 25-33 percent) far exceed their shares of the population (3 percent and 2.5 percent).