Affirmative action benefits not only women and minorities, but their dependents as well because their working adds extra income to the family. It is not a mythical monster. It is not a quota system. It is a strategy to rid society from the plague of discrimination. Affirmative action is extortion and it is demeaning to women.
Affirmative action is unjust and unfair.
P.P. Claxton Jr. speaks to winter graduates Austin Peay's December 1995 graduating class had the privilege of hearing an address by the son of the late Dr. P.P. Claxton, the second president of Austin Peay who served from 1930-46. A resident of the Washington, D.C., area, Claxton is president of the World Population Society, as well as president of the Harry S Truman Fund for the Advancement of the Human Condition. He began his university work at Austin Peay in 1932 and earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his master's degree in politics in 1935 from Princeton and his doctorate of jurisprudence from Yale Law School in 1938. During 1943-44, he studied at Columbia University School of International Administration, and in 1961 he attended the State Department Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy.