Comments on: UCLA Bureaucrats Subvert Anti-Quota Law. But Where Is GOP?

By: Andrew T.

Andrew T. — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:28:29 +0000

Yes, McCain, indeed we are all God's children, yes, but we most definitely are not all Americans, and being the former has no necessary connection with the latter! Being an American is NOT about possessing some abstract "democratic" state of mind or merely being within the geographical united States (unless you have alleged connections to Al-Qaeda, of course); neither is it some pristine ideology to be militarily dispersed around our world. Oh, the evils of nationalism.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:37:52 +0000

(1) The California government also sabotaged Proposition 187 by refusing to appeal the ruling that denial of benefits to trespassers (illegals) violated federal law! The federal government made NO such complaint although McBama and O’Cain probably would!
(2) If UCLA were a PRIVATE “prestigious” university, its policies of selecting inferior students at the expense of superior ones would be its own mishugas (crazy stupidity – appropriate for U. of Mich.) (3) In theory, “holistic” or “comprehensive” accounting for being poor or from a lousy school or a single parent might be worth 0.1 to 0.5 standard deviations but not multiple standard deviations of difference (4) As you mention in the Sander study, many black “beneficiaries” of this compassion either (a) flunk out or (b) get shuffled into the Black Studies Ghetto of oblivion (5) The white/Asians “victims” who go instead to UC Irvine do fine and enrich their schools (6) Affirmative Action is just one symptom of the “illiberal” faddish rot affecting American education (7) The long run beneficiaries of this rot will be Asian universities at the expense of American ones.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:45:17 +0000

So the key to getting into UCLA is to ‘ethnic up’ your entrance essay. Throw a little ebonics in there or mention how your fondest childhood memories center around making tamales with your mom at Christmastime. I almost wish I was entering college again so I could pull this on them and laugh my tukus off.