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>>20904062, >>20904272

Notables ~700

>>20904074 Committee Hearing - Calling for Accountability on College Chaos

>>20904086 House Session considers repealing DC non-citizen voting law

>>20904112, >>20904230, >>20904121, >>20904439, >>20904535, >>20904641, >>20904853 PlaneFaggin’:EuropeMed & more

>>20904126 The CFPB’s Pyrrhic Supreme Court Victory

>>20904127, >>20904234 Update on China maneuvers around Taiwan

>>20904130 Bird flu is man-made, that’s why they already have a vaccine for it

>>20904132 Trump reveals new debate format for upcoming showdown with Biden

>>20904142 Hearing on National Institutes of Health 2025 Budget Request

>>20904145 Virologists emails are taking down the entire NIH

>>20904158 SURFLANT 6 AM Bilateral exercise between US & Brazil Navy

>>20904170, >>20904203 Joe Biden's ATF assembles to raid Bryan Malinowski's home.

>>20904178, >>20904181 attempt to reconstruct the chronology of involvement Hunter, Nathan Wolfe, others

>>20904191, >>20904206, >>20904213 US Army 9:09 AM Ranger Creed

>>20904218 SURFLANT 3:00 PM (5/22) Underway Replenishment

>>20904233, >>20904238, >>20904243, >>20904244, >>20904912 Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home

>>20904265 Senator Cruz RIPS Secretary of State Blinken for catastrophic foreign policy

>>20904274, >>20904413 PDJT 12:09 AM United States Secret Service

>>20904277, >>20904281 PDJT 10:56 AM (link to RSBN) Yankee Stadium gets Trump surprise before Bronx visit

>>20904266, >>20904286, >>20904287, Netanyahu: Charging me with war crimes in Gaza is like charging G. Bush for 9/11

>>20904296 US5th Fleet 7:21 AM New SR and Master Chief Petty Officers

>>20904307 Alibaba to sell $4.5 billion in convertible debt to fund stock

>>20904310, >>20904340, >>20904475, >>20904729 Biden arrives in NH today; streets lined with Trump supporters

>>20904322 Rita Panahi slams Joy Behar for likening MAGA slogan to swastika

>>20904354 Microsoft’s “bing” API had a complete failure

>>20904357 Cassie Ventura speaks out about Diddy abuse vid

>>20904362 DOJ Also Approved the Use of Deadly Force During Search of Biden’s properties

>>20904379, >>20904649 Whistleblowers say Obama’s State Department blocked FBI warrants against illegals backing Iran

>>20904383 PDJT 11:20 AM Greg Jarrett 'Where is the crime?'

>>20904390 PDJT 11:25 AM Pam Bondi 'I wish all Americans could see.. how bad that judge was'

>>20904399 Ashley Biden admits diary account of showers and molestation fears real

>>20904496 USS George Washington (CVN-73) arrived this week in Rio de Janeiro for 2024 campaign

>>20904516 Tlaib and Others News Conference on Free Speech on College Campuses

>>20904529, >>20904156, >>20904908 Biden press conf. w/Kenyan President

>>20904551, >>20904671 Georgian PM accuses EU of ‘blackmailing’ him with assassination threat

>>20904573 TRUMP RALLY @5:00 PM EST

>>20904627, >>20904633 As Trump campaigns, he's spreading QAnon posts anew.

>>20904653, >>20904922 Yale, UCLA face woke woes

>>20904685, >>20904656, >>20904676, >>20904701, >>20904725, >>20904755, >>20904775, >>20904787 Twitter Files - CIA

>>20904730 Tom Fitton (5/13) - DC ran a special event to educate illegal aliens on how to vote

>>20904767, >>20904804 Charges Dropped Against New Jersey Gym Owner Who Defied Lockdown

>>20904768, >>20904770, >>20904891 Biden campaign held Zoom call with Haley supporters hours after she endorsed Trump

>>20904793, >>20904816 President Trump Shares VDH “Brace Yourself” Outline

>>20904896 Charlie Colin, a founding member of Train dead at 58 after he slipped and fell in the shower

FINAL

>>20904917

If our brave new world has a cabinet then our time here was a complete waste.

>>20904593

>US flag upside-down

Do you know what it means? What it signifies?

If not, dig.

>>20904904

>>20904888

latchkey kid at first grade, we had to grow up very early

>>20904922

sources said, suggesting naysayers are "privileged," implying that they are racist, and subjecting them to diversity training sessions.

After a Native American applicant was rejected in 2021, for example, Lucero chewed out the committee and made members sit through a two-hour lecture on Native history delivered by her own sister, according to three people familiar with the incident. No applications were reviewed that day, an official present for the lecture said.

In the anesthesiology department, where Lucero helps rank applicants to the department's residency program, she has rebuffed calls to blind the race of candidates, telling colleagues in a January 2023 email that, despite California's ban on racial preferences, "we are not required to blind any information."

That alone could get UCLA in legal trouble, according to Adam Mortara, the lead trial lawyer for the plaintiffs in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court case that outlawed affirmative action nationwide.

Asking for information about an applicant's race when "no lawful use can be made of it" is "presumptively illegal," Mortara said. "You can't have evidence of overt discrimination like this and not have someone come forward" as a plaintiff.

Lucero has even advocated moving candidates up or down the residency rank list based on race. At a meeting in February 2022, according to two people present, Lucero demanded that a highly qualified white male be knocked down several spots because, as she put it, "we have too many of his kind" already. She also told doctors who voiced concern that they had no right to an opinion because they were "not BIPOC," sources said, and insisted that a Hispanic applicant who had performed poorly on her anesthesiology rotation in medical school should be bumped up. Neither candidate was ultimately moved.

Lucero's comments from the meeting were flagged in an email to UCLA's Discrimination Prevention Office, which has received several complaints about her since 2023, emails show. The office has declined to act on those complaints on the grounds that they aren't "serious enough" to merit an investigation, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation. The Discrimination Prevention Office did not respond to a request for comment.

The focus on racial diversity has coincided with a dramatic shift in the racial and ethnic composition of the medical school, where the number of Asian matriculants fell by almost a third between 2019 and 2022, according to publicly available data. No other elite medical school in California saw a similar decline.

As the demographics of UCLA have changed, the number of students failing their shelf exams has soared, trends professors at the medical school say are connected.

Between 2020, the year Lucero assumed her post, and 2023, when the first classes she admitted were taking their shelf exams, the failure rate rose dramatically across all subjects, in some cases increasing tenfold relative to the 2020 baseline, per internal data obtained by the Free Beacon.

"UCLA still produces some very good graduates," one professor said. "But a third to a half of the medical school is incredibly unqualified."

The collapse in qualifications has been compounded by UCLA's decision, in 2020, to condense its preclinical curriculum from two years to one in order to add more time for research and community service. That means students arrive at their clinical rotations with just a year of courses under their belt—some of which focus less on science than social justice.

Pt2.

>>20904943

First-year students spend three to four hours every other week in "Structural Racism and Health Equity," a required class that covers topics like "fatphobia," has featured anti-Semitic speakers, and is now the subject of an internal review. They spend an additional seven hours a week in "Foundations of Practice," which includes units on "interpersonal communication skills" and, according to one medical student, basically "tells us how to be a good person." The two courses eat up time that could be spent on physiology or anatomy, professors say, and leave struggling students with fewer hours to learn the basics.

"This has been a colossal failure," one professor posted in April on a forum for medical school applicants. "The new curriculum is not working and the students are grossly unprepared for clinical rotations."

Nearly a fourth of UCLA medical students failed three or more shelf exams in 2021, data from the school show, forcing some students to repeat classes and persuading others to postpone a different test, the Step 2 licensing exam, that is typically taken in the third year of medical school and is a prerequisite for most residency programs.

Around 20 percent of UCLA students have not taken Step 2 by January of their fourth year, according to the data. Ten percent have not even taken the more basic Step 1—an "extremely high number," one professor said, that will force many students to extend medical school.

"It's a combination of a bad curriculum and bad selection," another professor said, referring to the admissions process. Some students are accepted with GPAs so low "they shouldn't even be applying."

UCLA did not respond to a request for comment.

As medical schools around the country adjust to the Supreme Court's affirmative action ban, the experience of UCLA offers a preview of how administrators may skirt the law and devise public-spirited excuses for violating it.

Lucero has told the admissions committee that each class should "represent" the "diversity" of California, including its remote and rural areas, so that graduating students will return to their hometowns and beef up the medical infrastructure there, officials say.

Race is rarely mentioned outright, and unlike the committee for anesthesiology residents, the committee for students does not see the race or ethnicity of applicants.

Instead, officials say, Lucero uses proxies like zip codes and euphemisms like "disadvantaged" to shut down criticism of unqualified candidates, citing a finding from the Association of American Medical Colleges that, technically, most students with below-average MCATs make it to their second year of medical school. How well they do after that point goes undiscussed and undisclosed.

"We have asked for metrics on how these folks actually do," one committee member said. "None of that is ever divulged to us."

Published under: Affirmative Action , Anti-Racism , DEI , Medical Ethics , Racism , UCLA , woke , Woke Schools

Pt3.

>>20904904

what's a "helmet"?

>>20904949

Something afaggot wears when they ride a bike.

>>20904957

I just filtered it.

>>20904953

i miss the days when we could crack our skulls open like real men

>>20904969

yes, the lesson of learning consequences for one's actions was solid back in the day.

>>20904969

i know there's a bit of smart in wearing a helmet… but when we were kids those who often got really hurt on their bikes… where hit by someone in a car who was not wearing a seatbelt

>>20904969

Learn how to fall.

Exercise your freedom or you'll become weak.