BOSTON/ Conservative Monitor -- Harvard's Civil Rights Project, a group advocating racial profiling in American university admissions policies, released a report this week saying that diversity is good.

The admittedly biased co-director of the project, Gary Orfield, says the report demonstrates the obvious proposition that "there (are) benefits to diversity...There were intellectual effects on students, not just minority students."

Meanwhile, Curt Levey, a spokesman for the Center for Individual Rights noted that no conservative groups are against diversity. "We are against using unconstitutional racial preferences to achieve diversity." Article XIV of the US Constitution specifically says that no state shall deny to any "person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Studies and common sense would dictate that educating students on various views and cultures "affected the complexity of their thoughts and even deeply affected their future life plans," as Co-director Orfield stated. Nevertheless, he failed to illustrate how basing college admissions on racial profiles would create this academic environment more efficiently than simply admitting students who had proven their academic credentials by previous performance. He also did not address the future life plans of students denied admission because their race did not conform with his idea of diversity.

The "Diversity Challenged" report was released simultaneously with the results of a poll financed by affiliated "civil-rights groups". Poll results showed that 66 percent of Americans thought that college admissions policies should consider the entire background of a student (race not mentioned specifically). Twenty-two percent thought that colleges should only consider student's grades. A percentage of the remainder thought that admissions should be based solely on high-school football statistics.