Colleges pride themselves on their statistics. ... If a white student and a black student apply to the same college, despite their grades, the black student automatically has a greater chance of acceptance. ... Those fighting over this issue are forgetting the purpose of the admission process: to accept students whose grades and extracurricular achievements are outstanding to a college's requirements. ... Students apply to college every year and every year students are accepted unfairly. Colleges who pride themselves on fairness, justice, and equality are lying to their students and their...

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He is now attending college "on the hill above Harlem". The speaker stating "I am the only colored student in my class" shows that very few people of color were able to attend college at that time. ... The college is set on "the hill above Harlem" (Meyers). ... It also implies that the college, as well as the white students that attend it, is "higher" or better than the colored people who live in Harlem, and they look down on these people. ... Just as students learn from teachers, teachers learn from students. ...

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Free Expression "Students should act with the respect for others" rights required of good citizens" (Goldberg, 332). ... But there is substantial pressure on college students across the nation. ... Limiting derogatory speech reduces the risk of a hostile environment on a college campus. ... By preventing such harassment or insulting of students, we allow the student body to appreciate diversity rather than degrade it. This may also attract prospective minority students to the SMU campus, resulting in a more diverse student population. ...

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Nonetheless, the advancement of women in the work force is not an issue in college admissions. ... For example, if a Caucasian and a Hispanic student were to apply to the same school, having the same academic standing, most likely the Hispanic student would gain acceptance. Subsequently, it's an unjust system because its logic assumes that the Hispanic student is poor, underprivileged and had to work three times as hard as the Caucasian student. ... On the flipside, the student may be brilliant, but the vigilance of affirmative action among fellow students creates assumption. ... As an a...

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For example let us say Cornell takes a student based solely on his merit, not taking into consideration his color, creed, race, or gender, and that it turns out this student is African American and felt no need to check off the box on his application concerning color. ... Situations like the hypothetical example proposed here only further racial tension and place distance between the races, only furthering racism, and making racial tension worse on college campuses across the U.S.. When asking black students from my graduating class from the Prep. who now currently attend Cornell how they fee...

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It ruled that the federal courts had authority over the segregation issue and that the integration of students should commence immediately. ... By the 1960's, violent acts were committed in response to the admittance of blacks to colleges and universities. Some states did not admit the black students but the federal government intervened. It resulted in the brutal attacks on the students and soldiers. ... Society started to accept different races and ethnicities more and the schools started to integrate students in order to unify them. ...

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It ruled that the federal courts had authority over the segregation issue and that the integration of students should commence immediately. ... By the 1960's, violent acts were committed in response to the admittance of blacks to colleges and universities. Some states did not admit the black students but the federal government intervened. It resulted in the brutal attacks on the students and soldiers. ... Society started to accept different races and ethnicities more and the schools started to integrate students in order to unify them. ...

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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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An example is when some colleges are saying no to hundreds of white males and then admitting hundreds of minorities with lower grades and test scores and who are not even college ready. ... More specifically, "The university's law school is the defendant in a reverse discrimination class-action lawsuit over the practice of admitting minority students with lower grades and test scores than whites" (Internet). ...

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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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The narrator is also judged improperly forcing him to question who he is even as a college student. ... Therefore, even while in college, the narrator's mask himself in order to be valued enough to advance in his career by acting the way whites would respect. In addition, the narrator was esteemed when he wore the mask of a high class college student but when it was acclaimed that he was Mr. ...

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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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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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While at Princeton, John received the same education and shared some of the same experiences as every other student that attended the college. ... Du Boise himself went to college and then on to graduate school at Harvard. ...

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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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Before several Womens Rights movements women were not allowed to vote, had to submit to laws that they had no voice in forming, married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law, married women had no property rights, husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity, divorce and child custody laws favored men, giving no rights to women, women had to pay property taxes although they had no representation in the levying of these taxes, most occupations were closed to women and when women did work they were paid...

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History has made it self evident that human nature and discrimination come hand in hand. The suppression of certain minorities through out the course of time, has lead to disequilibrium in the structures of our societies which show even today. Despite attempts having been made in the past, solid evi...

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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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After this organization is put together, they could go to different schools from elementary through college or after school programs like the boys and girls clubs and teach students about racial discrimination, but media could not make the full awareness or in other words many people may not know anything over these organizations. ...

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On the other hand, institutional racism is based on the way established institutions such as schools and colleges operate in regard to different ethnic minorities. ... For example, a student speaking a different language at home would have a hard time learning a new language in school if they didn't focus on it at home as well and they would get out of practice. ...

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Langston Hughes Poet, novelist, journalist, playwright, essayist, and songwriter: all of these words describe a man who is said to be one of the twentieth century's most respected and often controversial writers. This man's main mission was to help enlighten people on the racial issues that we...

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In school, Martin was a very intelligent and thriving student, he graduated from Booker T. Washington high school, doing good enough to skip 2 grades and graduate at 15 and finished college, top of his class at 19, getting a Bachelor of Divinity following it up with becoming a minister just like his father, preaching tolerance and the Christian belief of loving your neighbor. ...

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