why are there no requirements for certifying ethnicity? a white person can claim they are black and it is just accepted without proof? who are the fools who wrote the diversity requirements and related verification criteria?

Harvard, as everyone has always known, wouldn't hesitate to call someone with a hangnail "disabled" if it would let them hire whom they want and get minority credits for it. So don't elect Harvard to office! I'm really getting tired of so-called character issues taking precedence over substantial questions of how the two candidates will vote on issues.

Congratulations Glob! You follow this crap in some crazy quest to show Richmond and System that you are balanced...like they'll ever believe you! I told you all that when McGrory started going after rich people that the Globe would seek out "balancing" articles. At least Warren is not some Welfare Queen getting an extra ten bucks a month from the state or some silly BS like that, but this is not a real story; it's in the news because Brownie wants it in the news. She has a distant Native American relative - SO WHAT?

By the way - I didn't even read your frigging article! You can delete this post because it says Frigging, but Frigg is a Norse Goddess and I of course did NOT want to use a substitute for that bad word. I am simply paying respects to the Norse Goddess for whom Friday is named. I would NEVER use a stand-in for a bad word...Cheers!

A discussion of the fact that political-correctness-gone-wild caused all of this mess in the first place is warranted. We need to examine why the federal government needs this information every year, what the information is used for and what criterion are used as a standard. Harvard could hire a Diversity Sergeant to verify through records, and if no verification, then no identification as minority status. I suppose the Globe thinks this is major news. I think it says more about Harvard than it does Warren, but I'm partial to Warren. As long as she's on the ticket, I'm voting for her. They can do a million of these stories about who checked what box for what reason. The world of high-stakes higher-ed is a political minefield. I admire her (I was going to write brave spirit), um, chutzpah. Compared to the unethical practices of the the business world, this stuff is pretty light.

Simply said and I quote. "Oh what a tangled web we weave. When first we practice to deceive. -Sir Walter Scott

This is such a non story, one would think that the numb nut Howie Carr from the Herald is writing for the globe. The fact of the matter is that I would guess about 99% of us got their heritage passed down from one generation to the next. And even if you did the research the documentation from that time in the 1800's would be inconclusive. How many native Americans could read or write back than? I've done a little research into my own through the Census and found the informatiobn provided by my grandparents and great grandparents to be contradictory. Let's get onto the issue's that Scott Brown wants to avoid. Seems to me no one questioned his claim that he was abused by a camp counseler without any documentation, when he was trying to sell his book..

Enough, enough, enough...ENOUGH!

Elizabeth Warren is the BEST of the BEST. It is Massachusetts and the country's RARE opportunity to get a person of gargantuan intellect, immensely qualified and one of the best candidates to ever in Massachusetts history run for the Senate. It is clear her Republican opponent wants to win and is grabbing at straws as the Republican Party does at ANY cost no matter how irrelevant and ridiculous the issue is. This issue falls into the WHO CARES category. This woman is an unparalleled intellect informed in a subject with in which our country may be terminally ill -- ECONOMICS. She is a price above rubies and we should NOT let of all things an ancestry question take front and center in this race. Yet again our media and the Republican Party has the penchant for making the trivial important and the important take a back seat. We have SO many financial horrific problems and to put a know nothing tied to big money banks Republican into an office that used to be reserved for a man who cared about the little guy is obscene. My only regret is that I have but one vote to give to this IMMENSELY qualified Elizabeth Warren. I hope the people of Massachusetts do not pass up this one terrific opportunity to place a hugely qualified person into this VERY important Senate seat. She makes me proud to be from this state which is KNOWN for its academic excellence and on that score Elizabeth Warren fits the bill times 10. Elizabeth Warren is a GREAT GREAT woman whom I had the pleasure last week to meet. I can attest to her brilliance, her character, and her willingness to fight for middle class opposing the big guys on Wall Street who have brought not only this country but the world to its knees! We NEED ELIZABETH WARREN NOW MORE THAN EVER BEFORE!

I don't understand liberals that say this is a story. Isn't diversity and affirmative action, supposedly helping those who are discriminated against, a key liberal agenda item? Then isn't lying to benefit from affirmative action ( both by Warren and Harvard ) at the expense of the very people that should benefit from it a failure? If the answer is no, then why shouldn't I check off that minority box when applying for a job, and why shouldn't my children when filling out college admissions and financial aid applications? Before the rush to say "but she is 1/32nd" Native American ... no, she is not. You can be forgiven for the misunderstanding, the Globe trumpeted that she was Native American on the front page, then when it was proven false they buried it as the last item on the 2nd page retractions. And she DID claim to be Native American, the legal directory in which she identified herself as minority is used for hiring decisions.

Veritas!...sure. Warren and Harvard have some explaining to do. Perhaps Harvard officials could have a luncheon with people of similar Native American interests, like Warren, and all get on the same page to further the Progressive agenda, a sort of say Luncheon Summit.

Elizabeth Warren has been lying for years to get ahead and has taken jobs from "real" minorities. She is a fraud. We have enough elected officials like her already.

The cover-up is worse than the crime. This will dog "Fauxcahontas" the whole election.

Making false statements about yourself that you know is FALSE is political suicide.

At the end of the day, all I as a voter care about is which candidate is going to vote in his or her district's and his or her country's best interest. I believe in the Massachusetts US Senate race that person is Elizabeth Warren. All this other stuff is just a distraction from what really matters.

Her lies are very insulting: she didn't know that Harvard was touting her as a minority? How would they know she was a minority unless she told them? More embarrassing still is that yesterday she pulled the victim card and whined that Scott Brown for attacking "her family" when he asked for her to provide documentation of her Cherokee status. This is not how someone who has decided to enter the rough and tumble world of politics should respond. When the Boston Globe, which has up until this point been in Warren's pocket, publishes a damning story like this on its front page, you know that Warren is in trouble. I predict that she will drop out.

IMHO there is much more sizzle than steak to this never ending story. EW was confronted by TV reporters last night, and again, when asked about the Indian heritage, stonewalled and immediately went into that carefully practiced " campaign - speak " , the evils of: Bush - economy - Romney - Brown in that ever so annoying sing - song voice that bespeaks that voting for her will clearly be the most important thing You ever will do in your life. Enough already!!! Here's the question that should be asked: On what if any policy areas do you disagree with President Obama or Senator Kerry? I think we all know the answer and with it, your voting selection this November is quite clear.

At the risk of being labeled the Grammar Sergeant, criterion is singular, critera plural, so you would say ... criterion is used, or ... criteria are used. I agree this issue is a mountain that used to be a molehill. Brown has a 2-yr record in the Senate, while Warren has the record of her time at the Federal Consumer Protection Agency. Those are plenty for the campaign and should be the focus of discussion, philosophical, political, or otherwise, of who is the choice for this Senate election.

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

I'd respect the Warren supporters more if they would say 'sure, she's a liar and has not integrity but I'm going to vote for her anyway'....I'd have at least a modicum of respect for your honesty. If truthfullness and integrity are unimportant, we're lost.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/24/elizabeth_warren_stonewalls_on_questions_about_cherokee_ancestry.html

So your willing to settle for an unethical, unscrupulous person to represent you? Similar to the comment - I just want the best person. What a sickening joke. You simply look at the "D" in the ballot box, don't you.

Oh man, for Scott Brown this is the gift that just keeps on giving...

I'd say on this issue, she's more of a screw-up than a liar. I believe it is considered factually true that she has some native American blood in her. Whether or not she knew she was being advertised as a minority? Not sure anyone can know. But that seems like a stupid thing to worry about. If she made up the whole native American heritage thing, that would be a deal breaker.