Legacy preferences are often justified as a way of building loyalty among alumni, sustaining tradition and increasing donations.
"There is... a potential of not only marginalising the community but total disruption of a tradition and all sustaining traditional lifestyle developed and nurtured over millennia," the report says.
In the pan-Latino bazaar that is the Moore Street Retail Market, Ms. Castro and her mother, Isabel Gil-Rosas, sustain traditions that are centuries old among fellow Mexicans who live here and are too poor or busy to return home, or lack the papers they would need to return here.
Profound taboos sustain traditions of cultural revulsion, which attempt to make women's biology the site of shame".
This training was not simply a degree requirement at Officer Candidate School or one of the United States military academies, but a sustained, ongoing, and rigorous engagement with a philosophical tradition.
European wines have a built-in historical variety to them that is sustained by tradition, though in many areas of Europe these traditions are threatened.
"This is, for now, our language," Lerer writes, "and if we take liberties by writing on a screen or talking in face time rather than face-to-face, we are sustaining a tradition of a thousand years of re-inventing English".
There's something almost poignant in the way the Vatican has had to resort to chemistry to get its archaic method of communicating the papal election results to work properly: science helping to sustain a tradition from a distant age.
Although it came with only six months' notice, the offer from Spain seemed a perfect fit for a church that has a long history of supporting the arts, and of sustaining a tradition of ecumenicism.
