{"id":670086,"date":"2026-09-17T20:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=670086"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:01:52","slug":"texas-schools-like-ut-austin-use-this-rule-to-artificially-boost-diversity-instead-of-merit-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=670086","title":{"rendered":"Texas Schools Like UT Austin Use This Rule To Artificially Boost \u2018Diversity\u2019 Instead Of Merit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Main_Building_University_of_Texas_at_Austin_-_DSC08595-1200x675.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>The recent reaction to the video of a large section of seemingly South Asian fans cheering at the University of Texas at Austin football game drew attention to the skewed demographics at that school and the state\u2019s university system writ large. Racial and ethnic minorities make up 68.9 percent of undergraduates, and 56.2 percent of [\u2026]<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Main_Building_University_of_Texas_at_Austin_-_DSC08595-1200x675.jpg\" title=\"Texas Schools Like UT Austin Use This Rule To Artificially Boost \u2018Diversity\u2019 Instead Of Merit\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent reaction to the video of a large section of seemingly South Asian fans cheering at the University of Texas at Austin football game drew attention to the skewed demographics at that school and the state\u2019s university system writ large. Racial and ethnic minorities make up 68.9 percent of undergraduates, and 56.2 percent of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=670086\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Schools Like UT Austin Use This Rule To Artificially Boost \u2018Diversity\u2019 Instead Of Merit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/670067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}