Just for starters...
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Office of the Governor | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 3, 1998
Of Washington state workers who have benefited directly from affirmative action, 60 percent are white women, while only 21 percent of beneficiaries are people of color. Since the disabled, Vietnam veterans and disabled veterans also are protected groups under affirmative action, 19 percent of workers who directly benefit from affirmative action are white men.
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People typically love to use those worn out hypotheticals "if such and such and so and so is qualified why should..." Well, let's put those dogs to rest.
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Free Article - WSJ.com
The Office for Civil Rights initially rejected Mr. Li's complaint due to "insufficient" evidence. Mr. Li appealed, citing a white high-school classmate admitted to Princeton despite lower test scores and grades. The office notified him late last month that it would look into the case. His complaint seeks to suspend federal financial assistance to Princeton until the university "discontinues discrimination against Asian-Americans in all forms by eliminating race preferences, legacy preferences, and athlete preferences."
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Hmmm.... Just like that U of Michigan thing. Lots of national silence (on these forums at least, comparative speaking) on those White students with lesser GPA's and test scores.
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Whose battle? New Crisis, The - Find Articles
At Michigan, officials have insisted that all of those who are admitted to the university meet a high level of achievement and performance, even if some students are admitted ahead of others who have higher grades and test scores. In fact, testimony in the case against Michigan showed that there were many white students admitted to the university who had test scores and grades that were lower than plaintiff Jennifer Gratz's. In 1995, the year Gratz applied to UM, of the students admitted with lower scores and grades, 1,243 were white (46.7 percent) and 725 were Black (27.2 percent).
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You know, I don't remember seeing/hearing a thing about that when the hearings were TV and the case was in the news. I wonder why...
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CNN.com - Are legacy college admissions racist? - Mar. 5, 2003
Today, sons and daughters of alumni make up more than 10 percent of students at Harvard, Yale and Princeton. They are 23 percent of the student population at Notre Dame. At the University of Virginia, 11 percent of this year's freshmen class were children of alumni -- and more than 91 percent of them are white.
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It would be nice to see a meritocracy. Too bad one does not exist in these United States. I would hope that those who have an axe to grind regarding AA as they imagine it as "racist", etc. would speak at length and with equal fervor about all preferences, real or perceived.
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