Posted on 04/14/2013 10:38:43 AM PDT by jazusamo
If you're like me, your college alumni association floods your inbox with email invitations to contribute, often adding invites to football games and lectures by famous alums or popular professors. Except for the moment when an appeal made directly by an administrator turned out to be a multi-page swoon over Obama, most of these imprecations are politically content-free and were designed to play on my nostalgic memories of a college as it once was, not as it is today.
Both my husband and I are very grateful to our university. Without scholarships neither of us would have had an opportunity for higher education. Overall, the university and its law school gave us a lot. Out of gratitude we regularly contributed but I reduced our contribution when the alum association was unable to get from the admissions officers statistics to show whether or not they were discriminating by race in admissions, and later we decided to give directly to high school students in need of further preparation for college and college religious associations. News about what's going on in colleges and universities around the country suggest to me that more alums should pay closer attention to what's occuring there before they open their wallets.
The evidence of widespread racism in admissions is substantial. This was most recently underlined by the open letter "To (All) the Colleges that Rejected Me" by Suzy Lee Weiss that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Hans van Spakovsky commented in the National Review this week:
Suzy Weiss and many other high-school seniors across the United States are being discriminated against because of their skin color or because they have an epicanthic fold in their eyes. Such racial and ethnic discrimination is morally wrong, and neither "diversity" nor anything else can justify it.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
One solution for some of this: donate to scholarship funds managed by churches and religious groups.
And don’t send your kids to schools that are party schools or ravingly-PC.
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