Posted on 06/03/2004 5:13:53 AM PDT by Max Combined
Easy explanation. Berkley is a RACIST university!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
But that's not the take-away the academics are hoping for.
SSSNNNIIIFFFF...you shoulda put a tear jerk alert on this, man. I'm like soooo distraught. No one should have to suffer like this!
/s off
This part of the article says it all:
Renita Chaney, a junior and executive director of the campus Black Recruitment and Retention Center, said she would be reluctant to encourage black freshmen to attend this fall unless they want a challenge.
"If it's activism or some kind of fight they're looking for, then come here. But if education is what they're looking for, then don't come here," she said.
WOW! Even the recruiters are recognizing the hypocrisy.
Either that, or they are publicly admitting that the school's purpose is training activists. Education is a secondary activity that can be better accomplished elsewhere.
> "This is supposed to be a public university and it's not really representing the public," Harrison said. <
What's the percentage of those with Down's Syndrome at Berkeley? Are they adequately represented?
Only 30% of the undergraduates are white? Then 70% of the students are non-white. By idiot liberal standards, if the majority population is white, then the student population should refelct this. Seems like thwey have waaay too much diversity.
When I was in college, no one looked like me either, but that was good for them, I suppose.
Since no one looked like anyone else, the Prof was able to call on us by name, each of us being an individual and all.
What about the low numbers of underrepresented majorities and, in particular, the appallingly low numbers of chirstian white Americans?
Given the high numbers of Jewish and Asian students at top schools, white Christians are underrepresented.
No mention that the Black seats were filled by illegal Hispanics? Hmmm?
"This is supposed to be a public university and it's not really representing the public," Harrison said.
It is supposed to be an elite and intellectually rigorous university and in order to achieve that goal, it has very high admissions standards which results in more Asians being admitted than any other ethnic group.
Good for the Asians, they worked hard to get into Cal and they work hard to stay there.
Student Body
Enrollment: 23,206
Female: 54%
Out of State: 11%
International: 3%
African American: 4%
Asian: 41%
Caucasian: 30%
Hispanic: 11%
Native American: 1%
"Toff Peabody"
He sounds like a bruiser. I wouldn't want to meet ol' Toff in a dark alley.
Sounds like excellent judgement on their part.
"If the purpose of school was to just go to lectures we could all stay home and watch them on the Internet," Peabody said. "It's the actual interaction you have with other students that makes my education better at Berkeley than somewhere else."
Why is this guy so elitist? Oakland is not far from Cal, is it? He can always catch a bus over to Oakland and interact with some fellows his age over there and learn more about life than he is learning in the classroom. He could wear a couple of nice gold chains around his neck and see what happens to them.
I can confirm from personal experience that the self-congratulatory do-gooders at liberal universities are some of most racist, patronizing people around.
. . .perhaps now the elementary; middle and high schools will once again feel the 'mission' of their profession; teachers will return to 'teaching' and holding students responsible for learning and appreciating the value of acheiving success in an academic world so as to prepare them for what should be their success in the 'real world'.
When that happens, the public university will once again be a reflection of the community which it is there to serve; rather than the students being there to serve the image of the university.
Around here we have more than our fairshare of kids attending NOVA (Northern Virginia Community College) after blowing all of their family's money at University of Virginia or William & Mary (both state schools with Ivy league pretensions/costs!)
It doesn't make sense for Junior Division courses to be taught at the supposed elite and premier campuses any longer. Then, too, a bright student can do all this work on the internet and avoid the costs of traditional campuses anyway.
"Ward Connerly, a part-black UC regent"
A PART-BLACK UC regent?
I think that is the first time I have ever read that term in reference to a black person.
Do they refer to Halle Berry as being the first part-black winner of the female best actress Oscar?
They must be trying to de-legitimize old Ward for his un-PC views.
The fall enrollment figures came about six months after John Moores, chairman of UC's governing Board of Regents, issued a report saying Berkeley turned away thousands of students who aced the SAT but accepted hundreds — many of whom were black or Hispanic — with low scores.
Meaning that a degree from Berkeley isn't a resume enhancer.
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