A cycle of racism
UNIVERSITIES should not give preferences to some students and discriminate against others on the basis of skin color and the countries their ancestors came from.
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UNIVERSITIES should not give preferences to some students and discriminate against others on the basis of skin color and the countries their ancestors came from.
ON FEB. 22, the Center for Equal Opportunity released a report authored by Drs. Robert Lerner and Althea Nagai. Analyzing data collected from public colleges and universities from all over the country, the study concludes that most schools grant admission preferences to African-American and, to a lesser extent, Hispanic applicants.
IT IS ILLEGAL for the University to discriminate on the basis of race and ethnicity in its admissions policies, but the policy should be ended even if it were not illegal. Legal or illegal, it is unjust for some students to be admitted to college because they have the right melanin content or ancestry, and for others not to get in because theirs is wrong. It is not only unfair in human terms but opens the door to other, anti-minority discrimination.