From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
Subject: Re: Racist/Sexist Role Models
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:26:11 GMT

>>Many colleges provide special preferred academic treatment for Blaks.
>
>Actually, they've been providing special treatment for Whites for a long
>time.  This is evidenced by the fact that one college officer obviously 
>can't even spell the color "Black"

I was not refering to the color black but to the race Blak.

>and doesn't know enough to call Americans 
>of African descent by their proper name, i.e. African Americans.

Such special preferred treatment is restricted on the basis of race,
not national origin, hence the appropriate racial reference.

>>These include lower admission standards (in effect, adding points to SAT
>>scores, etc.),
>
>Actually, the same is done for men, since the raw SATs are higher
>for women than for men.  Men systematically have their scores raised
>a couple points.

Really? At schools like MIT it's harder for equally qualified women
to gain acceptance? That's not what the MIT admissions office states.



>> tutoring, mentoring, organization memberships, which are
>>denied Caucasian students.

>Actually, at Cornell, where I went to school, there were a number of
>organizations which were extremely race, gender and even religion 
>restricted which provided tutoring, mentoring and files full of 
>old exams and problem sets for most courses.  These were known as
>FRATERNATIES.

Sorry, no sale. I'm sure that there are some people who buy the
argument that it's okay to discriminate on the basis of gender or
race if it can be alleged that someone else is doing it but not me.

>Since they are private organizations, they are actually
>extremely restrictive.  The same goes for secret societies, such as
>George Bush's at Yale.  Also recall that there was a quota here at
>Harvard for Jewish students until the 60's,

Hey, I don't care if your primary care giver can beat up my primary
care giver, I'm not going to buy the notion that the solution to
gender/race discrimination is more gender/race discrimination.

>which is why Boston 
>University exists (it was started because top students who happened
>to be Jewish would have a harder time gaining admission to Harvard
>because of these quotas) and for a long time there were no Jewish
>faculty here.  In essence, with more strict admissions policies 
>being applied to women and Jews at Harvard/Radcliffe, logic dictates
>that the admissions standards have always been lower for WASP men
>here.  Men like yourself.

Excuse me, I don't ever recalling you gazing at my genitals.  Would
you happen to be one of those feableminded sexists who can't comprehend
the notion of a woman opposing sexism rather that joining her
place in the dole line of the many restricted to females benefits.

>Of course, even with all of that extra
>help, some WASP men still wind up at state schools.  Men like yourself.
>
>
>> Perhaps you didn't realize such advantages
>>made available to you were race restricted.
>
>Perhaps you didn't realize such advantages 
>made available to you were race restricted.

Could you name ten advantages made available on the basis of race to
WASPs (Caucasians)? Five? Any? Come on, at least you could make some
up for us.

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