How much you paid for a cupcake at Kutztown University [Pennsylvania] today, depended on your race and gender.
That’s because the College Republicans there sponsord an affirmative action bake sale. That was not so unusual, but what was unusual was the administration’s response:
KU officials say they hope the bake sale promotes healthy debate on campus.
Two sensible comments from two university administrations today (see this post on Southern Illinois University earlier today)! That must be some kind of record.
Maybe more schools are getting the point.
Maybe more schools are getting less alumni money and more earfuls from alumni.
Confederate Confectionists
Maybe schools that have demographics like this…
>>>”In Fall 2002, the school had 7,624 (full-time equivalent) students. 96.6% of students attend full-time, while 3.4% attend part-time. In Fall 2002, 703 male students and 1,085 female students enrolled as first-time students (freshmen, typically). Male students comprised 39.3% of the student body, while females made up 60.7%.
Minority enrollment included African-American (5)%, Hispanic (3)%, and Asian (1)%.”
Not many CHIPS in Kutztown Cookies
…have campus Republican groups that feel more emboldened. I’m sure an “anti-samba dancing” bake sale would go over well there, too.
–Cobra
cobra – Your point being, I take it, that students at schools without a significant minority population have no business debating issues that concern the rest of the country. I assume you would thus also believe that students at historically (and still predominantly black) colleges also shouldn’t presume to debate the merits of racial preferences, etc.
cobra,
Considering that Florida A&M is 96% black, then Kutztown University is still more diverse than Florida A&M. Kutztown also appears to have more male students than the average HBU. Want to bet that it is more in compliance with Title IX than your average HBU?
John writes:
>>>”Your point being, I take it, that students at schools without a significant minority population have no business debating issues that concern the rest of the country.”
Not at all. Everybody is free to debate. It’s my belief that it’s a whole lot more “convenient” for anti-affirmative action types to make their points on an overwhelmingly white campus.
Superdestroyer writes:
>>>”Considering that Florida A&M is 96% black, then Kutztown University is still more diverse than Florida A&M.”
What are the bake sales like at Florida A & M?
–Cobra
Why should the students at Florida A&M protest set asides. I bet many of them plan on using a quota to get into graduate school or to set up a business to act as a 8a minority contractor. Or maybe they plan or getting into the government service on a discount?
Superdestroyer writes:
>>>”Why should the students at Florida A&M protest set asides. I bet many of them plan on using a quota to get into graduate school or to set up a business to act as a 8a minority contractor. Or maybe they plan or getting into the government service on a discount?”
And your problem with that is what? That if Affirmative Action is eliminated, America will return to being one big ol’ meritocracy, where people are judged based upon their qualifications?
Which episode of the “Twilight Zone” did you watch for that notion?
I’ll see your “set asides” and raise you “old boys networks.” I’ll see your “quotas” and raise you “cronyism”. I’ll see your “minority contracts” and raise you “interlocking directorates”, “fraternalism”, and “predominantly white corporate lobbyists” and “predominantly white industrio-military complex institutionalized for decades.”
Funny….I don’t think those College Republicans at Kutztown have a brownie or two allotted for any of those.
–Cobra
Seasoned Adults: Let us not stray from the issue. The issue is a race of people are offended by a stereotype a misconception an insensitive “what about poor little me”, “why should they gain” scarcity mentality. It is because of a lack of knowledge that many sentiments are developed about the need to repair the damage that has been done to a people, a race, a culture. It is because a lack of knowledge some try to hide mean, offensive, demeaning behavior behind the curtain called “Free Speech. It is because of a lack of knowledge that these students who are very early in their knowledge seeking years display the type of deficiency motivated behavior. A behave that speaks to a very sad mindset which is “I loose if someone else gains”. These student will one day gain the proper defense to people that which to use them as contributors to the hypocrisy and mean spiritedness of our country.
I am sure the architects of our constitution did not intend for us to “pimp” and or scurry behind “free speech” the way some attempt to do. It is hard for the students to appreciate the reality that the Native American offered not cookies but corn and the African American sacrificed blood not bills for the opportunity they now exercise to offend their descendent, on the very land that has been taken, and now used to hopefully fully educate their young minds.
These students are young and have much to experience, we should teach better because we know better. We are older and life should have allowed us opportunities to better see and acknowledge the truth, consequently using our experience wisdom and this TRUTH to nurture and develop a more appreciative mindset within our young people.