Posted on 10/17/2003 12:48:12 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Berkeley Defends Admitting the Stupid We figured that an SAT score of only 600 couldn't get you into the worst community college in the nation, but now we read that it will get you into the almighty University of California at Berkeley (if, of course, you have the right color of skin). Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl is furious that the UC Board of Regents has blown the whistle on the notoriously left-wing university's ludicrously biased admissions policies. "You have done the university a great disservice and shown open contempt for reasoned discourse about complex issues," Berdahl claimed in a letter to regents chairman John Moores, the Los Angeles Times reported today. Moores wrote a confidential report to fellow board members revealing that Berkeley (aka Berserkley) last year let in nearly 400 students with SAT scores of only 600 to 1,000, far below the 1,337 average for the class. Meanwhile, Berserkley refused entry to about 3,200 intelligent students with SAT scores above 1400, including more than 600 students with scores above 1500 out of the maximum 1600. Their crime, of course, is having the wrong color of skin (i.e., white or yellow or that politically incorrect shade of South Asian brown). The lowest possible score on the SAT is 400, so a monkey picking answers at random should do better than 600. Berdahl says he admitted the stupid students because they overcame "disadvantages" (one of those disadvantages apparently being low intelligence). "They deserve more than derision from the chair of the Board of Regents," he wrote. Moores responded by observing: "A little transparency is a wonderful thing - and it would be good for this university." Moores said, "Whatever his personal agenda is for writing such a letter ... my concern always has been and continues to be that the admissions policy of the University of California be legal and fair." Berdahl whined that the report has undermined the public's trust in Berserkley. Note to Berdahl: The truth should undermine the public's trust in Berserkley.
"Dear Alumni and Friends of Cal,
On Thursday, October 2, Robert Dynes, formerly chancellor of UC San Diego, became the 18th president of the University of California. The California Alumni Association is forwarding you, as a member of the UC community, this introductory message from President Dynes.
MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY
It is with great pride in the accomplishments of the University of California and great excitement about this institution's future that I assume the presidency of the UC system today. This is the premier university in the world, a place where the very best come to study, to work, and to learn. It also is an institution that has a deep impact on the society around it. California today is the envy of the world - a testament to the success of innovation, diversity, tolerance, risk-taking, and entrepreneurship. Much of that success simply would not be possible without the University of California and its contributions to education, health care, job creation, and an improved quality of life."
Oh, the hypocracy of his statements!
His name was Patrick Chavis. He wasn't the first to enter medical school because of affirmative action; but he WAS the candidate who got into medical school in place of the better-qualified Allen Bakke.
The NY Times magazine ran a cover story on Chavis, showing him in surgical scrubs, cradling a 'minority' newborn baby. The Times celebrated this fruit of affirmative action, and spoke glowingly of Chavis's service to his "community."
Turns out there were many complaints about Chavis in his role as an OB/GYN, and he had to be reprimanded many times by the medical community.
Chavis turned to the more lucrative practice of liposuction after taking a 3 or 4 day minicourse in the specialty. He killed one patient and maimed at least a couple of others. Finally his licence to practice was revoked.
A few years ago Chavis was killed by gunshot. The circumstances weren't clear, but some reports said he was killed in a carjacking.
Exactly, the success of those who do graduate is tainted, as are their degrees.
Leftist education institutions have an unoffical policy of objective grading. Just to level the playing field you know. It is more pronounced at some universities than others, and depends on the number of professors that are willing to engage in this unethical kind of social engineering. Some professors just cave into the leftist agenda, since failing to promote the incompetent can spell, "career ender."
Of course a number of graduates come out of these institutions with credentials and no credible job skills. They fake it for a few years until someone dies from medical malpractice or a building falling down.
This is the reason that bureaucracy exists. It is to compensate for incompetence. The problem is that bureaucracy frustrates the qualified and diminishes their capacity for acomplishment. The qualified seek other avenues to succeed in. For the institution that let the wrong people on the bus is is a slow death spiral.
More on this later.
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