Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College et al
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Opposition re 546 MOTION in Limine filed by President and Fellows of Harvard College. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2, # 3 Exhibit 3, # 4 Exhibit 4, # 5 Exhibit 5, # 6 Exhibit 6, # 7 Exhibit 7, # 8 Exhibit 8, # 9 Exhibit 9, # 10 Exhibit 10)(Waxman, Seth)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
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_______________________________
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STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC.,
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Plaintiff,
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No. 1:14-cv-14176
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PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF
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HARVARD COLLEGE
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(HARVARD CORPORATION),
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Defendant.
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__________________________
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VIDEO DEPOSITION of WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS
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Boston, Massachusetts
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August 3, 2017
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Reported by:
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Dana Welch, CSR, RPR, CRR, CRC
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Job #127104
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FITZSIMMONS
the race of the student, right?
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A.
Yes.
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Q.
So if a white student were active in the
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NAACP, you wouldn't rate that any differently as an
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extracurricular component than you would an African
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American student?
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MS. ELLSWORTH:
Objection.
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No.
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Q.
Can you think of any occasion where race
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would factor into an athletic rating?
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MS. ELLSWORTH:
Objection.
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No.
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Q.
Can you think of a situation where race
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would affect the personal quality rating?
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MS. ELLSWORTH:
Objection.
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Not race per se.
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Q.
What goes into the personal quality
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rating?
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It would really be a holistic view
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based -- the reader, readers and then ultimately
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the committee because the committee, you know,
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could get new information, say, an interview may
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come in during committee.
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It would be looking at everything in the
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folder:
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counselor and other school personnel and, really,
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anyone else say; someone who'd been involved in a
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community activity when religious activity -- could
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be anything with the student along with interviews,
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obviously, really along with what the student's --
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the life trajectory of the student, where the
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student had grown up, what opportunities the
The impression that the teachers and the
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student had had in his or her family, neighborhood,
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secondary school.
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It would be a complete review of a life
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story, you know, in its entirety.
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in that application that could give us a better
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sense of what kind of an educator that person would
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be of others and really try to project, you know,
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talk about creating citizens and citizen leaders at
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Harvard, but also for the world later.
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Any information
So it's unique for every person and takes
all factors into account.
Q.
I thought you told me that whether someone
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would be a leader and would be a greater citizen at
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Harvard was one of the reasons why Harvard uses
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race.
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MS. ELLSWORTH:
Objection.
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quality, taking everything in the folder into
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account?
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MS. ELLSWORTH:
Objection.
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It's simply one part of a person's life.
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Q.
Is it a part that can be taken into
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account when assigning a personal score?
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MS. ELLSWORTH:
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Objection.
It depends on how that person -- let's
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say, for example, you had a student who had been
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the subject of discrimination as a result of racial
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and ethnic background.
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school talks about how that student had overcome
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that prejudice and had, let's say for example, gone
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on to try to help other students who had been the
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victims of discrimination and prejudice and perhaps
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helped some of the students who had been a part of
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discrimination and/or harassment in the first
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place.
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a person's race might have interacted with
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circumstances in his or her life, whether it's in
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secondary school or beyond, that would indicate
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that that person might turn out to be a valuable
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leader and classmate at Harvard.
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Q.
And, say, a teacher in the
That -- I'm just giving you an example how
So, in that case, are you evaluating the
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CERTIFICATE
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Suffolk, ss.
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I, Dana Welch, Registered Professional
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Reporter, Certified Realtime Reporter and Notary
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Public in and for the Commonwealth of
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Massachusetts, do hereby certify that WILLIAM
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FITZSIMMONS, the witness whose deposition is
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hereinbefore set forth, was duly sworn by me and
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that such deposition is a true record of the
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testimony given by the witness.
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I further certify that I am neither related
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to nor employed by any of the parties in or counsel
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to this action, nor am I financially interested in
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the outcome of this action.
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In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and seal this 15th day of August, 2017.
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____________________________
Dana Welch
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Notary Public
My commission expires:
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October 6, 2017
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