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Asians Protest New U-Cal Admissions Policy; Alabama Councilman Destroys Rebel Flags
April 27th, 2009Asians Protest New U-Cal Admissions Policy For years Black and Latino education leaders have argued that admissions standards at the University of California System, which rely almost exclusively on two SAT subject exams, are biased against their students who tend to fair worse on standardized tests. Now new admissions criteria intended to make the process fairer are getting a thumbs down from angry Asian-American students who are over-represented in the system at 40 percent of the undergraduate population. Under the new admissions standards, the biggest change in UC entrance policy in nearly five decades applicants will no longer be required to take two SAT subject tests, greatly reducing the number of students guaranteed admission based on grades and test scores alone. The change, approved unanimously by the UC Board of Regents in February, takes effect for the freshman class of fall 2012. Proponents of the new plan note that it will greatly expand the applicant pool. But Asian-American families and advocates, want the policy rescinded, contending that it amounts to affirmative action for Whites. Education experts project that the it will sharply reduce Asian-American students across the system’s nine undergraduate campuses. “I like to call it affirmative action for Whites,” said Ling-chi Wang, a retired professor at UC Berkeley. “I think it’s extremely unfair to Asian-Americans on the one hand and underrepresented minorities on the other.” With 173,000 undergraduate students, Asian Americans comprise the largest ethnic group of undergraduate students, about 40 percent. They represent about 12 percent of California’s population and 4 percent of the U.S. population.
Alabama Councilman Destroys Rebel Flags A Black Alabama councilman, decrying the Bars and Stars as a racist throwback to a shameful period in U.S. history, yanked up several Confederate flags that had been placed on the graves of Civil War soldiers. Auburn City Councilman Arthur Dowdell is the target of outrage by such folks as Mary Norman, president of the Auburn Heritage Association, for his recent actions at the Pine Hill Cemetery. “He pulled up the flag, snapped it in two and put it in his car,” said Norman, describing the way Dowdell vanquished the symbol on her great-grandfather’s grave. Was Dowdell right for what he did? Read more.
If blacks can get a free ride, why not us Asians. I guess because we are not Americans.
THE COMMENT ABOVE ME DID NOT COME FROM THE REAL UMLAW THE SQUID!! ANOTHER HICK TRYING TO BLOG IN ANOTHERS NAME. WE MAY HEAR FORM THE REAL RACIST UMLAW THE SQUID LATER ON.
“If blacks can get a free ride, why not us Asians. I guess because we are not Americans.” What? Who the hell says Blacks “get a free ride?” Did you not get the ultimate effect of the policy? WHITES are most advantaged by this change in policy. Is there some kind of parallel or something between whites and asians that we don’t now about? Finally, I think most Asians resent your chacterization of Blacks as typically getting free rides. That’s ludicrous. I don’t know if you’re not American, but your comment puts you in an unfavorable position, if I might say. And, I take it from your username that you’re a law student at the University of Miami? University of Maryland? Doesn’t bode well on your school either, buddy! Not only did I graduate from the TOP UC, but I’m finishing law school as one of those “Blacks” you seem to point out.
Maybe this means that in the long run, there will be more ppl admitted with COMMON SENSE, BOOK SMARTS, and LIFE EDUCATION. As a person who has had to deal with undergrads with no life experience because they spent their elementary and secondary education with their head stuck in a book so much they don’t know u can’t walk through walls, I’m glad to read this. Of course this means that ppl will now have to get off their butts, put down the video games a bit, and get involved in activities throughout the community. Hope this means that communities will start implementing more programs for visible minorities too. It would certainly be beneficial in leveling the playing field for EVERYONE!
NEVER MIND. HE IS THE REAL DEAL. SOMETIMES I CAN BE DUMB AS HELL.
HE IS THE REAL, I AM SUCH A DUMB ASS..!!!!
Maybe I should go around and destroy some of those African flags.
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UMlaw imposter,
First of all blacks never get a free ride; in fact we usually have to pay extra and work harder to get to the same place as the rest of society. Second, Asian Americans are American, stupid. Finally, get some guts, use your own name.
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I will wear the Rebel Flag around my bare ass and walk straight into the South Bronx!! I know now one will touch me because I love Big Beefy Black men!!
BET I am not concerned about Asian American entry into college. At the college I attended Asian American attendance exceeds all other ethnic groups.
Asians work harder than blacks do!
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Asians are smarter and work harder than whites and yet we are still treated like second class citizens by whites!
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