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Berkeley Defends Admitting the Stupid
NewsMax ^ | 10/17/03 | Limbacher

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.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: California
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; berkeley; demsaredummies; gotostanfordinstead; napalminthemorning; quotas; racenorming; stupid
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61 posted on 10/17/2003 5:38:52 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander (Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I received an email last week from the California Alumni Association. Here's an excerpt of the first couple paragraphs:

"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!

62 posted on 10/17/2003 6:31:31 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: krb
no. 400 is the lowest possible score. If you managed to be smart enough to miss every question, you would still get 200 each on math and verbal. [I say smart enough, because if you guess you would get many of them right -- you have to KNOW most of the answers to give consistently wrong ones!!]
63 posted on 10/17/2003 6:50:24 PM PDT by BohDaThone
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Does Berkeley offer "Sounding Out The ABCs, 101" and other remedial literacy courses? What a pathetic "university". If I'm hiring, I'm skeptical of anybody with "Berkeley" on their resume, that's for sure.
64 posted on 10/17/2003 6:57:07 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: BohDaThone
Yep. A chimpanzee gets 600 or better every time, guaranteed (as long as the chimp makes it's "mark" where the test-taker's name goes).
65 posted on 10/17/2003 6:59:59 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: wayoverontheright
"...certain obliteration of the self esteem of those unfortunate black kids who are totally unprepared to deal with the academic demands placed on them..."

Maybe you aren't aware of challenging courses like "Black Studies," "Self Study," "Criminal Justice," (imagine what the homework assignments entail). At Berkeley, they probably also have "Ebonics I", "Ebonics II," "Ebonics III," "Ebonics IV," "The influence of Ebonics on Cro-Magnon Caucasians," etc.

I suspect that a pigment challenged mental defective can get thru Berkeley with a pretty good GPA then go inflict himself on corporate America easily. It was that way as recently as 5 years ago before I retired (from an S&P top 20 company).
66 posted on 10/17/2003 7:52:35 PM PDT by Chu Gary
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To: Teacher317
"The lowest possible score on the SAT is 400, so a monkey picking answers at random should do better than 600.

RACIST PIGS!!!!"

Today is Friday October 17, a school day. You posted at 1:28 PM. Therefore, you must be at work. Don't you think that your students need you more than the internet does during these hours? Besides, the post that you're disagreeing with is, arguably, correct. Please, go back and teach your young minds or do some classroom prep.

67 posted on 10/17/2003 8:00:53 PM PDT by Chu Gary
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To: krb
see info at:

http://www.colinfahey.com/2003apr5_sat/2003apr5_sat.htm
68 posted on 10/17/2003 8:14:39 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2; BohDaThone
Wow...looks like I stand corrected. Jeez, Berkeley is stupider than I thought.
69 posted on 10/17/2003 8:59:56 PM PDT by krb (the statement on the other side of this tagline is false)
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70 posted on 10/17/2003 9:42:23 PM PDT by Hobsonphile (Art should celebrate God's creation. Writers should love humanity in all its forms.)
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To: 4mycountry
I had a buddy that aced the SAT's when he was twelve.
71 posted on 10/17/2003 10:13:38 PM PDT by stands2reason ("What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women." -- Chuck Palahniuk)
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To: johnb838; doc30
I don't have the source handy, but didnt't the first black MD who entered medical school via affermative action lose his medical liscence becasue he was such a abd doctor?

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.

72 posted on 10/17/2003 10:46:53 PM PDT by shhrubbery!
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To: longtermmemmory
If I had a job applicant with a degree from berkley, my first thoughts would be that this person is a leftist wacko.

Exactly, the success of those who do graduate is tainted, as are their degrees.

73 posted on 10/18/2003 5:27:45 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: anobjectivist
Um...so how are those students going to do in their classes?

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.

74 posted on 10/18/2003 5:52:11 AM PDT by SSN558 (Be on the lookout for Black White-Supremacists)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
This is the same "University" that helped sponsor a "study" on the correlation between being "right wing" and "authoritarian."

More on this later.

75 posted on 10/18/2003 11:48:54 AM PDT by sauropod (Fry Mumia!)
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