Posted on 06/03/2004 5:13:53 AM PDT by Max Combined
THere are very few blacks living around Berkley Campus... lots of hispanics and asians, but blacks as a percentage of the population in San Fran area are next to nill.
Also its insanely expensive to live around Berkley, as like most of the Bay Area housing is ghastly overpriced.
Public universities tend to serve their local communities... and the only reason Berkley had higher rates to begin with was due to artificially created demand and preferencial treatments, its not suprising that when those preferencial treatments and recruitment slowed or stopped that admissions stopped as well. Its not some racist or end of the world thing, its just reality... I know that's something most college campuses don't wish to understand or accept, but it is.
"Seems like they have waaay too much diversity."
Not enough diversity in the proper percentages.
If 98 represents a 30% decrease, then last year they had only 140. And even at 140, blacks only represented 3.66% of the population. If anybody but a liberal college had that low a percentage, they would indeed be labled racist.
Hahaha...glad they explained that one :-)
People are forever telling me that they're "part Cherokee," and my response is always, "Oh? Which part?" So it would be interesting to know which part of Ward is black and which part is white.
It is VERY intimidating when you're in an university where "Nobody looks like me". Especially if you happen to be of a skin color that makes you look more "stupid".
I had a friend who expressed amazement that there were 3 blacks in his calculus class.
Also went to grad school. I was the only white female there and one of the very few non-obese females on campus, period. It wasn't comfortable being in an environment predominated by Asian and Indian males. For example, my advisor told me to not to take a class because it had "too much math" where in reality I loved and excelled at math.
This black girl probably grew up in a black neighborhood and is in a white environment for the first time. Nothing wrong with her feeling intimidated.
We need to stop pussyfootin' around with this blatant truth.
Bingo. . .Ward's 'blackness' does not serve their agenda and so they find a dismissive term and one for which they cannot be held critically accountable for using.
Liberalism is a beautiful thing; for those that have eyes. . .and cannot see.
Who would want to be around a bunch of elitist liberal racists anyway?
They were referring to his ideology rather than his race, you see. Since he doesn't agree with black "leaders", he can only be "part-black".
It might just be that the blacks aren't really all that interested in going to a college with a lot of white liberals and Asians.
Also what does Berkeley offer that you can't get somewhere else?
Get a better education at ba little community college then two year place for a tenth of the price. No thanks Berzerkley.
Forking over $20+K a year just to be part of "some kind of fight"?? Talk about money or nothing. Just head on town to the local bar and Saturday and get all the "activism" you want for free!
If they simply quit asking what race students were then there would be no numbers to gin up a handwringing story. After all, isn't the content of their character more important than the color of their skin? Oh yeah, that's considered a racist philosophy now.
When I went to school, I never looked around to see 'who looked like me'. STUDYING!!!
That speaks volumes!
LOL! Yeah, and what about blond haired, blue eyed, straight,Christian males? Now there's a minority I'd be willing to bet is WAY under represented.
Kudos to the students for being able to pull this off, but it still sounds abusive so it is little wonder the lawyers put the kibosh on the practice.
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