Several national fraternities and sororities sued Harvard University on Monday over a 2016 rule that discourages students from joining single-gender social clubs, marking the first legal challenge to the school’s policy. Two fraternities and two sororities filed a lawsuit in ...

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Its quest to replace Harvard's means of achieving diversity with a race-blind process, the closely watched lawsuit could dismantle an admissions system the high court has held up as an exemplar, and thus affirmative action at colleges across the U.S.

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Harvard University intentionally uses a vague "personal rating" to reject Asian-American applicants in favor of students from other racial backgrounds, according to lawyers on one side of a trial that began Monday and carries weighty implications for dozens of other U.S. colleges.

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