As Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs attract ever more federal attention, many college admissions offices have feverishly sought workarounds that would allow them to continue practicing illegal discrimination.

One clever scheme involves perverting the purpose of a Khan Academy program called “Dialogues” by accepting Dialogues “portfolios” as optional supplements for undergraduate applications. This way they can use the peer ratings to reject applicants who don’t conform to prevailing woke orthodoxies.

Who says the Long March Through the Institutions is over? As long as the devoted cadres, fellow travelers, and useful idiots haven’t been driven out, it’s all just gone underground until the coast is clear.

MIT’s woke admissions office initially signed up for the program. Which is about what you’d expect for an innumerate female-dominated cabal whose Assistant Director of Admissions once bragged that her favorite book was “How to be Antiracist” by Ibram Kendi. (That link has since been removed from MIT’s public website. Good thing the Beaver got a screenshot.)

But what ho? Someone higher up, perhaps concerned about the mean orange man’s university reform blitzkrieg, pulled the plug. MIT, along with Vanderbilt University, announced that it will not be playing this game in the upcoming admissions season.

If any of you dear readers knows who is responsible for this wise decision, drop the Beaver an email so he can pass along three hearty Aarghs!