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the elite universities? yeah, it s a definite risk. i mean, we saw? this afterr reco reconstruction, when people whennstruction, when people grandfather clauses and poll taxes to get around, say, oh, no, this is race oh,o, and we l know it wasn t. i think they re going to trying to do the same thingwasnk th. d they ve already telegraphed that kind of like, hey, just put it iust n your personal statement and then we know what race you are. and that will serve as checkin g the box. i think there s going to have to be a lot of people, you know, checking harvard sbox checking all these universities and making sure they re not just using a backdoo e r mechanismbackdoo to circumvent the court s ruling. and that they truly are livingmise up to that promise of equalf eq admissionsua for all races and true equal protection. n, now, devin, there was a moment when biden came out mid-day and he was leaving the room. reporters were shouting questions. one said, well, do you thinkthin this is a