The Main of Quad Stanford University in California. Photo Credit: King of Hearts, Wikimedia Commons. Stanford University announced Tuesday the formation of a panel to investigate claims that it used admissions quotas to discriminate against Jewish student applicants in the 1950s. Until the publication in August of a blog post by Cornell University postdoctoral fellow Charles Petersen, it was only rumored that Stanford, like Ivy League schools on the east coast, limited the admission of Jewish students in the earlier half of the 20th century through a “ Jewish quota .” “It is important to face our history as an...