... problem of past discrimination. First of all, affirmative action IS discrimination, only in reverse. In colleges across the country, African-Americans and Hispanics are being admitted at the expense of Caucasians and Asians with higher standardized test scores and high school GPAs for the sake of diversity. This discrimination is unjust and uncalled for. A second idea against affirmative action is the idea of individualism, where the ... 90% for all 'underrepresented' minorities with GPAs above 2.8 (a dismal B minus) or SATs over 830, well below the national average for all who took the...

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... system of quotas and preferences that we see all around us today. This transformation was accomplished through a series of Orwellian distortions of the law, none of which has ever been ratified by the Congress."(Lund) In the years since, affirmative action in its new form has extended ... its reach to include groups not historically considered disadvantaged, at least in the same since that blacks were. What origonally was linked as a short term leg up for individuals who had supposedly been held down by official policy has turned into a program of racial, ethnic and ... beginning these...

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... seeds? I think that's wrong; for example, how in the book the last shot; the author say the basketball player fail to achieve humble scores on sat's or that one of the player became homeless because he chose to play basketball or one man, tried to committee suicide because he could not ... All they care about is the performance of the player on the court, but this is also not true they"re forgetting about eligibility requirements and I don't want to hear that the teachers are changing the grades for the players what will they have to gain from doing this? ... there is always someone ther...

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... students, when it is meant to be good. Therefore now college admissions are based more on skin color than on skills and merit. The University of Michigan rates students on a scale that awards points for SAT scores, High school grades, and race. A perfect SAT score is worth 12 points, but being black gets you 20 points. Now tell me, is there anyone who can look ... you can't change. Diversity in the schools is needed but affirmative action isn't the way to do it. College students oppose affirmative action, but believe that there needs to be a new device to receive diversity. Therefore I ...

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... civilians were being killed in the highly disputed war in Vietnam. On February 20, 1960 four black college freshmen from the Negro Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina quietly walked into a restaurant and sat down at the lunch counter. They were protesting the Jim Crow custom that blacks could be served while standing up but not while they were sitting at ... in fourteen cities in five deep south states. In the weeks to follow many new protests arose. After a black woman was beaten with a baseball bat in Montgomery, Alabama, 1,000 blacks silently marched into...

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