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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,79811,00.html
Here's a snip.
BERKELEY, Calif. ? Students at a California university used cookies instead of protest signs on Wednesday to demonstrate against college affirmative action policies.
A conservative group at the University of California held a bake sale with sweets priced according to the buyer's race or ethnicity. Whites paid more for their cookies than did Latinos, American Indians and other minorities.
But only about 30 cookies, bought in bulk from a big-box store, were sold.
"We weren't expecting to find 100 people coming out and agreeing with us," said Kelly Coyne, a member of Berkeley College Republicans, the group holding the sale. "What we wanted to do is to really inject this issue of debate on the campus and it has. People are talking about affirmative action."
For the same chocolate chip cookie, whites were being charged $1.50, Asians $1.25, Latinos (Hispanics not from Mexico) $1.00, Chicanos (Hispanics from Mexico) 75 cents, American Indians 50 cents, and blacks 25 cents.
Berkeley and the entire UC campus network stopped considering race and gender in 1997. Enrollment of blacks and Hispanics dropped sharply after that move but have increased in recent years, although that trend can be seen less so at the top campuses of Berkeley and UCLA.
UC recently switched to a system known as comprehensive review admissions, which takes into account factors such as hardship or poverty but not race.
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There's more, but that's the gist.
Pretty cool.
Here's a snip.
BERKELEY, Calif. ? Students at a California university used cookies instead of protest signs on Wednesday to demonstrate against college affirmative action policies.
A conservative group at the University of California held a bake sale with sweets priced according to the buyer's race or ethnicity. Whites paid more for their cookies than did Latinos, American Indians and other minorities.
But only about 30 cookies, bought in bulk from a big-box store, were sold.
"We weren't expecting to find 100 people coming out and agreeing with us," said Kelly Coyne, a member of Berkeley College Republicans, the group holding the sale. "What we wanted to do is to really inject this issue of debate on the campus and it has. People are talking about affirmative action."
For the same chocolate chip cookie, whites were being charged $1.50, Asians $1.25, Latinos (Hispanics not from Mexico) $1.00, Chicanos (Hispanics from Mexico) 75 cents, American Indians 50 cents, and blacks 25 cents.
Berkeley and the entire UC campus network stopped considering race and gender in 1997. Enrollment of blacks and Hispanics dropped sharply after that move but have increased in recent years, although that trend can be seen less so at the top campuses of Berkeley and UCLA.
UC recently switched to a system known as comprehensive review admissions, which takes into account factors such as hardship or poverty but not race.
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There's more, but that's the gist.
Pretty cool.
