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Breaking News: The Trump administration released new rules that could revoke tax-exempt status from schools offering targeted support to minority students, a new front in the president’s campaign against higher education.
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Trump Administration Renews Push to Strip Schools of Tax-Exempt Status
The Treasury Department released rules that would upend how schools qualify for tax-exempt status, a new front in the president’s campaign against higher education.
![1201110 Lynn's work was among the main sources cited in the book The Bell Curve, and he was one of 52 scientists who signed an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled "Mainstream Science on
Intelligence", [261 which endorsed a number of the views presented in the book.
**He was also on the board of the Pioneer Fund, which funds Mankind Quarterly** and has also been described as racist. 127, 161 He was on the editorial board of the journal Personality and Individual Differences until
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The journal was established in 1960 with funding from segregationists, who designed it to serve as a mouthpiece for their views.
The costs of initially launching the journal were paid by the Pioneer Fund's Wickliffe Draper. 1111 [121 The founders were Robert Gayre, Henry Garrett, Roger Pearson, Corrado Gini, Luigi Gedda (Honorary Advisory Board), [131 **Otmar von Verschuer** and Reginald Ruggles Gates. Another early editor was Herbert Charles Sanborn, (14] formerly the chair of the department of Philosophy and Psychology at Vanderbilt University from 1921 to 1942. It was originally published in Edinburgh, Scotland, by the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics, an organization founded by Draper to promote eugenics and scientific racism.(11]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjzrpzlcmir3bkss4b5nh6ox/bafkreigatuljc5uzijhmvzpxn3t2gdlln7mgpzjvu5lopyzoz7ooivpuju)
![Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer (Dutch: [vee'fy*]; 16 July 1896 - 8
August 1969) was a German-Dutch human biologist and geneticist, who was the Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Münster until he retired in 1965.
A member of the Dutch noble Verschuer family, his title Freiherr is often translated as baron.
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He was regarded as a pioneer in the twin methodology of genetics research and in the study of the inheritance of diseases and anomalies. (11 A Nazi-affiliated eugenicist with an interest in racial hygiene, he was an advocate of compulsory sterilization programs in the first half of the 20th century. [21 [31 Among his many students was Josef Mengele, a war criminal who directed medical experiments at Auschwitz. 141](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjzrpzlcmir3bkss4b5nh6ox/bafkreidyle6u76wygxn5gj4e6ofu4ccelzqjbuevcjwdpoegrumbzc6a6i)
