It's been a rough week for the University of Pennsylvania, at least in the blogosphere (no thanks to me). Now John Rosenberg has taken up the analytical cudgels, applying his considerable talent for picking apart affirmative action policies to my noble employer. The result is a picture of an institution thoroughly committed to discriminating in order to prove its commitment to ending discrimination. In fairness to Penn, it is far from alone in arraying its preferential policies against its declarations of equality and fairness in the way it has. But that doesn't make it any less interesting as a case study in what John aptly calls the guiding "hypocrisy" of the modern university.