Today in its “Community Voices” section, under the heading, “Affirmative Re-Action,” the Philadelphia Inquirer published some student comments on affirmative action and diversity.
If you scroll down through (or read) the pieces by the Villanovians (it was the “Main Line” edition; hence the absence of student voices from Penn, Temple, etc.), you will find Jessie’s at the bottom, last but not least.
An editor had seen “Unpopular Opinions,” an anti-PC Bryn Mawr campus paper she started with a friend last year, and asked her to write something. That was several months ago, and we thought her submission had been spiked.
It wasn’t, and I hope I may be allowed to say that it is very good indeed.
But we’re so diverse!
Jessie Rosenberg of the excellent Discriminations blog has weighed in on affirmative action as practiced at American universities — not
Wow, that WAS a great letter! I have to admit, though, I think as a whole the letters were balanced. I live in Philly, near Penn, and all I see is the Ivy League PC inanity. The City Paper and the Independent Weekly are amusing but I hate their politics.
I’d love to check out her campus paper – is it online?
Unfortunately, we’re not online yet. Given the overwhelmingly liberal atmosphere of this college, Unpopular Opinions requires, at the moment at least, a lot of work from a few people. So, we’re working on getting it online, but I don’t know when it’ll be ready. I could send you one of the issues, if you’d like. They’re Microsoft Publisher files.