U. of Ga. sued because it wants too many blacks - really

[donsu]

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/92004a.asp


UGA Playing with Racial Preference Fire, Legal Group Warns


The University of Georgia is being threatened with a lawsuit over its plan to increase the number of black freshmen on campus. Two years ago, a federal court found the university's preference program for undergraduate minority applicants unconstitutional and discriminatory. Nevertheless, UGA officials are now about to reinstate an admissions policy that gives special preferences based on race.

The UGA Faculty Admission Committee has recommended that the school create an office of diversity recruitment and hire an image consultant to address the school's reputation among members of the black community, as well as to reinstate race and ethnicity as factors in admission consideration. However, UGA's president, Michael Adams, has been warned by the Atlanta-based Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) that reinstating the use of racial preferences in the admissions process could create "a grave constitutional risk" for the school.

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recruiting blacks for college is a "grave constitutional risk"?????

damned if they do, damned if they don't

[cheezus]

1. fuck the confederacy

george wallace is dead! get over it!

[tx_dem41]

6. Wasn't Univ. of Michigan sued for the same basic thing.....

Time to check my map of the Confederacy...

[cheezus]

7. there are open borders

and there are confederists everywhere these days (not to mention the sympathizers who were born in the union)

[tx_dem41]

8. Psst.....they were always there actually....

Just like Blue/Red is really varying shades of purple....Blue and Gray was varying shades of ...ummmmm...any artists want to help out?

[cheezus]

10. exactly, they're all blue (union) states since we won the civil war

but that doesn't seem to stop the gray people from still fighting it. fuck them

[RubyDuby in GA]

2. There are much better schools to go to here

Leave those damn rednecks to themselves and let them have it.
Although, it is a shame to cede Athens, home of REM and the B-52s and numerous other progressive bands and people, to those backwoods, backwards close-minded assholes.

[Dawgs]

3. Relax people...

UGA is a great school, and Athens is a great town. I live down here. I know many want to generalize everyone in the South as being a stupid red-neck, but realize this area has millions of dems as well.

[RubyDuby in GA]

5. I live in Covington

Less than an hour away and I know there are Dems there, but face it most are too afraid to come out of the woodwork.

I'm sick to death of hearing about this every other month. Don't hear these complaints about Emory.......

[itzamirakul]

4. So I guess the complainers just want...

a few "football" and "basketball" players on campus, huh? Why bother with anyone who might want to be a doctor or a scientist or a teacher?

[DireStrike]

9. AA should be economically based, not racially or culturally...

What is the argument against this?

[LostinVA]

11. UVA is dealing with This, Too

(I have no idea how to set a link, but it was in yesterday's Daily Progress in Charlottesville)



The U.S. Department of Education is investigating the University of Virginia’s undergraduate admissions policies after a New York father alleged that his son’s 2003 application was rejected because he is white.

The father of the rejected student, whose names were not released according to education department policy, wrote in his complaint that he made numerous calls to the office of UVa’s dean of admissions, John A. Blackburn, but never received a call back.

“This man must wield an enormous amount of power for his office to be allowed to treat people differently based on the color of their skin and have no one to answer to,” the man wrote. “I can envision the sign over his desk, ‘White males need not apply.’”.....


But M. Rick Turner, dean of African-American Affairs and a former admissions counselor at Stanford University, said racism is “the common cry” when a parent believes his student was unfairly rejected.