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quotas based on race, ethnicity or religious beliefs is wrong
we can thank the jews at the ACLU for them
Jews are being favored at Vanderbilt University (aggressively
recruited for the first time) and will keep being disfavored at the
University of Michigan Law School (passed over for less qualified
blacks and Hispanics), at least until the U.S. Supreme Court steps in.
It's hard to decide which of these two stories is more excruciating.
Vanderbilt, a Bible Belt university located in Nashville, is targeting
Jewish students in an "elite strategy" to boost itself toward Ivy
League status. Chancellor Gordon Gee announced this plan along with a
series of relentlessly pro-Semitic compliments guaranteed to set every
Jewish tooth on edge: Jews are lively, interesting and hardworking,
and come from a rich culture. All well meant, no doubt, but close to
conventional stereotypes.
Then there is the problem of leaving the word "Jewish" hovering in the
air within 10 paces of the word "elite." Our campuses are addicted to
ethnic and racial tinkering, so problems like this are common.
Vanderbilt wants to pep up its image (and presumably its ranking in
U.S. News & World Report's college guide) by importing some bright
Jews. But the university doesn't seem to have a clue about how
offensive this is, and not just to Jews. Christian students will now
understand that their university views them as unimpressive bumpkins
in need of non-Christian help.
The College Board has fueled the new market in religious identity
groups by asking college-bound test-takers to list their faith. Jews
came in second in the testing sweepstakes (1161 average board scores),
exceeded only by Unitarians (1209). According to The Wall Street
Journal, some colleges now buy the names of Jewish students from the
College Board. This has overtones of the scramble for free agents in
all major sports. The unspoken premise is that if the Jewish free
agents are attractive enough, they will be granted an edge over
equally qualified gentile candidates.
Here we go again. Although Vanderbilt claims that it's just marketing
to a new group of students, this looks like yet another identity-group
preference scheme by college officials who seem constitutionally
unable to hold all candidates for admission to a common standard.
Jewish students are also at the heart of a controversy over the
University of Michigan Law School's preference system. Ruled
unconstitutional last year by a federal district judge, the system was
upheld last week in a 5-to-4 decision by the 6th Circuit Court of
Appeals. The case is likely to go to the Supreme Court.
In dissent, Judge Danny Boggs noted that "a significant proportion" of
the Michigan law school applicants who lose out because of "diversity"
preferences are Jewish. Though the plan is pro-minority, not anti
Semitic, he says it reduces the number of Jews much the same way anti-
Semitic Ivy League admissions policies did in the 1930s (not to
mention the 1920s, '40s and '50s). In those days, as one writer put
it, "If you were a Jew with an A average and 1600 on the boards, you
wouldn't get into Yale as fast as a South Dakota farm boy with a
gentleman's C."
It's a grave charge that Jewish quotas are making a comeback of sorts
as a byproduct of "diversity" preferences. "Diversity" people are
committed to the rhetoric of "underrepresentation": Every aggrieved
group is entitled to the same proportion of university slots as its
percentage of the population. But where will these slots come from?
The so-called white ethnics are already "underrepresented." A few
years ago, the head of the National Italian-American Foundation said
Americans of Italian ancestry account for 8 percent or 9 percent of
the American population and only 3 percent of Ivy League students. The
slots can come only from the two groups that have dramatically
exceeded expectations: Jews and Asian-Americans.
Jews are only 2 percent of the population, but at Ivy League schools
they account for 23 percent of students. In diversity-speak, a
language with no word for merit, this means that Jews are
"overrepresented" and logically headed back toward quotas. Boggs
writes: "The law school and the court will certainly deny this, but
that is where the figures unavoidably lead us."
Affirmative action started out as a mild and temporary tie-breaking
plan applied to equally qualified candidates. It mutated into a huge
boost for low-scoring minority candidates. At the University of
Michigan Law School, race is worth more than one full grade point of
college average. And now it seems headed for "representation" quotas
for all racial and ethnic groups. Is this any way to run a university?
On May 3, 7:07 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Arvin Vohra suggested a new Meetup.
>
> What: Anti-Asian Bias In College Admissions? (feat.
> refreshments from Food for Thin)
>
> Why: Because Asian Americans deserve equal education
> opportunities
>
> When: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 6:30 PM
>
> Where:
> Arvin Vohra Education
> 4626 River Road
> Bethesda, MD
>
> A century ago, college admissions were changed to make it
> harder for Jews to get into college. Today, according to
> analysts like Malcolm Gladwell, Asians have become the new
> Jews. Gladwell and others claim it is harder for equivalently
> qualified ...
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