owebo
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You have another link, the information wasn't in that fake news site.....First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law ReviewLink?He graduated Magna cum Laude........which is determined SOLELY on grades....Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.
That system came under attack in the 1970's and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review.
But I bet whoever is trying to get you worked up over this didn't dwell on that....