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06-13-2005, 02:07 PM
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Banned from Calculus Class - for being white
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06-13-2005, 02:48 PM
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Re: Banned from Calculus Class - for being white
I generally support a school setting its own affirmative action policy in higher education, but that is a bit extreme. Once you get in, it should be a free for all.
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06-13-2005, 04:24 PM
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Re: Banned from Calculus Class - for being white
Racist policies like this are one thing on their own, but we are talking about a University that gets a great deal of its funding from the state of Oregon (correct me if I'm wrong here). Racist policies are bad in general. Racist policies by a state agency are even worse.
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06-13-2005, 04:33 PM
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Re: Banned from Calculus Class - for being white
Someone who is more knowledgable than myself might know better, but my understanding was the strict quotas/hold-outs have been unconstitutional since Bakke.
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06-13-2005, 04:54 PM
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Re: Banned from Calculus Class - for being white
Indeed. However, they could keep this by simply changing the wording and effectively keeping policy the same. For instance, if they "interviewed" each student, then choose the black students first they would not be working on a "strict quota". Something the more astute members of the supreme court realized and put in thier recent dissents.
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06-14-2005, 08:08 AM
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Re: Banned from Calculus Class - for being white
the problem with affirmative action is that it works off racism. it says that certian individuals r not equal to others and need hand-outs in order to reach equality. to accept affirmative action is to accept the fact that u r not equal in the first place.
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06-14-2005, 04:08 PM
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Re: Banned from Calculus Class - for being white
Yeah, keeping someone out of the school because of their race is fine, but keeping them out of calculus for one semester because of their race is just wrong.
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06-14-2005, 04:44 PM
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Re: Banned from Calculus Class - for being white
Hi,
Maybe a bit hijacking, but I do not know so much about that Affirmative Action-thing. The logic behind it is that minorities has been discriminated by society, and thus their children have need for special support, right? Why can't it be organized in a non-racial way by finding better criterias (poor parents etc)? Does it not fuel racism among youth?
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