Affirmative action in colleges and universities should not be upheld. If a white student with excellent high school grades applies and does not get into a school that he deserves to attend because a colored student with decent high school grades takes there place that is reversed discrimination. ... If a student gets accepted to a school because he is a gifted athlete that is a different form of discrimination. ... Nor should a student be declined acceptance because of economic class. If a student wants to attend a college or university bad enough they find a way to attend no matter how ba...

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At the University of Michigan Law School, the way that they accept students is a point system. ... In the text there is no information about the background of the minority students. ... I have already experienced firsthand reverse discrimination since I have been in college. On the very first day of school, I met a Latino student and we began to talk about how he was making it through college. ... After I had thought about it, I decided that I was happy for the Latino student, and that I hope he does well in college. ...

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An example of this would be what white and black college students ask and how a black student may sarcastically answer. ... It is not a student's job to educate other students on the topic of race. It is the student's job to obtain an education. The student's job is to focus on getting the job done. Giovanni is talking about diversity as something that should empower students. ...

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If one is to discuss and problem solve an issue, he or she must first know what the issue is truly about. Affirmative action is defined as the equal opportunities given to women, minorities, and small groups so they will have the same tools, education, and allotment to achieve their goals in life. S...

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Many of them talked to me as if I were their friend, not their student. ... I knew that if I wanted to go to a good college, I would treatment have to get good grades, and I resented the implication that the only way I could get good grades was by getting special treatment. I had always been a good student, and I had no intention of changing my study habits now that I was in high school. ... Many of the students attended the games, but their primary focus was on getting into college. If they talked about football at all, they usually discussed the regional college teams. ...

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These offices enforce Title IX in 16,000 local school districts and 3,200 colleges and universities (civil rights). ... There have been lawsuits against colleges but they have either been solved in other manners or the lawsuit was thrown out. ... The opportunities for coaches as well as other personnel to recruit student athletes are also supposed to be the same (overview). ... They get 133 million dollars less college athletic scholarships and 38 percent fewer opportunities to participate in sports at the college level (save). Women make up 53 percent of the students attending divisio...

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Most of college America goes to school and works at the same time. ... College students who have wealthy families either don't have a job or they have a job just to spend their time more wisely and to have extra money to spend. ... Financial aid helps out with tuition books and any other needs of an underprivileged student. What bothers middle class students is that they are too rich to qualify for financial aid but they don't have the money to pay for college. That's when middle class students take up jobs, apply for loans, and if a student is doing well in school they"ll apply...

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Imagine walking into the admissions office of a high school or college you wish to attend. ... After responding to her, she leads you to a room which has six other prospective students. ... Later on that day, you are informed that the other six people who were in the waiting room with you were asked to be students at that institution. ... A student can be rejected a chance to participate in a certain class or activity because of their gender or skin color. ... Her parents did not understand why their daughter had to go to a distant college with mostly whites, rather than attending "a col...

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.: The school's student body is 67% female, but women constitute only 43% of its athletic program. ... Almost all private colleges and universities must abide by Title IX. ... Other benefits: Title IX requires the equal treatment of female and male student-athletes such as: equip, games, tutoring. These new regulations have brought in a wave of girls into the college athletic scene. ... Opponents of Title IX claim that it should not be enforced in college athletics because there is a lack of athletic interest on the part of college females. ...

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Bush complained that U-M gives greater weight to a minority applicant/s race than it does for a perfect score on college admissions tests. ... Examples of how points are awarded include: • White students who attend high schools that have predominantly minority students get 20 points. ... • Students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged or who have overcome extraordinary obstacles can get 20 points. • Students from at least 114 highly regarded Michigan high schools get an extra eight points because of the strong curriculum and high numbers of students who attend colleg...

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Recently, the legitimacy of Affirmative Action's fairness in giving students of all races an equal chance has come under fire. ... Being a black female myself, I believe that students should be accepted based on merit of their performance and not their sex or race. ... It is harder for students from such schools to get into a good college. ... Colleges quest for more percentages of minorities lead to reverse discrimination. ... Texas has implemented the 10% program, which entails making the top percent of schools around the state eligible to come to the colleges. ...

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This obviously applied in the sports aspect of colleges, universities and high schools. ... The major problem with complaining about colleges and universities discriminating in sports is that funding reports were not available to students. ... The students argued that the two women's teams combined cut $62,000 from the women's sports budget while the two men's teams only amounted to a $16,000 detraction from the men's budget. ... The students" argument has prevailed in both the District and Appeals Courts. ... At least sixteen other colleges and universities have also tak...

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The most apparent and disturbing flaw in affirmative action is how it cheats more deserving students out of something they have earned and rewards minorities something they haven't. For someone to work harder than a minority individual their whole lives and both apply to a school and only the minority student gets in is a tragedy. ... These minority students can fill college quotas and eliminate any chance a lower class minority would have to get into college. ... Instead of using affirmatives action as a means to eliminate discrimination, it has forced colleges and companies to use discr...

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The Law and Me (Affirmative Action In Colleges) In 1964 and 1965 President Johnson signed the Civil Rites acts, and these acts included affirmative action. ... In other words they wouldn"t always take the 100 most qualified people, since 16 students entering the school must be a minority. "Bakke's qualifications exceeded those of any of the minority students admitted in the two years Bakke's applications were rejected"(www.plhs.esu3.org). ... Affirmative action has been challenged once again on college admissions. ... This is just one of many ways affirmative action affects Pu...

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A major part of every college campus is the Greek system. ... It amazes me that discrimination and racism carries on today, especially among such younger generations such as college students. ... Although it was the first time a sorority had been accused of racial discrimination, one student made the comment thatAlpha Gamma Delta probably aren't the only ones who do it? ... According to Richard Mullendore, vice president of student affairs, few African American students choose to participate in membership recruitment, or rush, which shepherds participants from one predominantly white soro...

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In other scenarios, minority students who apply to colleges around the U.S simply get accepted because of their cultural background, rather than grades and qualifications like they do to the Caucasian students. ... For there can be a program that can prepare and even train minority high school students to go to college and meet the same standards that of a Caucasian student. ...

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According to a critic on affirmative action, "A college board survey, described in Andrew Hacker's Two Nations, in 1992 the average combined SAT score for black students whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." ... Family incomes have less to do with SAT scores than the efforts students put into their studies. ... Instead, all students should raise their own standards in order to improve our society. ... Instead the school would rather accept a Mex...

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Kurt is also a bright student and dedicated and motivated athlete. ... For example, Good smart white kids cannot get into college because of an act set by the University for Reservation of seats for other minorities and races. ... Black, white, yellow or blue should go to college because of how smart or successful you are and not for any other reasons. ... Also in Kurts school, There was a whole list of scholarships that was offered only to African American students even though they were other more deserving students, but could not qualify to receive the scholarship because they were not Afric...

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Fairmont State College does a decent job expressing that to students in different way. ... Most schools lack the ability to instill that knowledge to the students. ... Race, Class, and Gender is going to be a great class to instill students with different outlooks in society. ...

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Basically, affirmative action is giving preferential treatment in College admissions, job hiring, etc. to minorities (but also those with disabilities and female applicants) in an effort to prevent discrimination. ... As we speak, many high school students across the country have who have applied to universities are being rejected because there are other, less qualified people who are getting accepted because they are minorities. ...

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Not only does it use race to decide who will get the better job, but it is based on an assumption that minorities cannot be as successful as white students and employees without government intervention. Imagine that two people have finished college, and each wants to go to the same medical school. ...

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These people I targeted were majority college students ranging from age eighteen to twenty seven. ... Providing equal opportunity and access to minority students at major universities, especially in areas that demand a high level of skill, are a major component of the plan to equalize in America's labor field. ... Although college-educated black women have reached earnings similarity with college-educated white women, college- educated black men earn 76% of the earnings of their white male counterparts (Do Racial Preferences help). ...

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February 1, 1960, four college freshmen ask to be served at a segregated lunch counter but are denied. ... Within two weeks students in eleven cities held sit-ins. ... The basic idea of a sit-in was for students to ask to be served at a lunch counter. ... The students would remain nonviolent and respectful at all times, and would dress in their best outfit. ... The students in attendance then formed an independent organization called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to lead in the effort. ...

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I felt particularly nervous about class because I was unsure how the other students would react to someone who is not very fluent in English. ... After seeing the pervasiveness of racism even on a college campus, I think that the only way to combat racism is to accept the racist remarks and consider it as ignorance. ...

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The goals were later extended to college admissions and of government contracts. ... Minority students who have never been accepted into a decent school are now being accepted. ... Society's hopes are to end racism in school campuses and to have diversity between the students. ...

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