Joanne Jacobs points to a fine post by Stefan Sharkansky, who awards his un-coveted “Crayon Diversity Award” jointly to the Board of Regents of the University of Washington and Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Robert Jamieson “for advocating the principle that diversity is a good thing as long as people don’t express diverse opinions.” The sensitive liberals were upset that the mean college Republicans had sponsored one of those notorious, divisive, hateful bake sales making fun of racial preferences in admissions.
Shark also points out that whites are significantly underrepresented in the freshman class at UW:
… the college-age population of the State of Washington is 72.5% white, 6.5% Asian and 3.7% black, while the University of Washington freshman class is 56.5% white, 27.9% Asian and 2.9% black. The only way the university could accurately reflect the diversity of the state’s population would be to send 3/4 of the Asian students home and admit a lot more white kids and a handful of new blacks. I hope that’s not what the Regents have in mind.
The overheated if predictable response to these college bake sales gives new meaning to the expression “half-baked.”
