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Decrease in black students alarms UCLA
Baltimore Sun ^
| 6/4/06
| Rebecca Trounson
Posted on 06/04/2006 9:30:35 AM PDT by mathprof
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:30:40 AM PDT
by
mathprof
To: mathprof
No problem. Just lower the standards more and exlude white and asian kids.
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:32:44 AM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
To: mathprof
No problem. Just lower the standards more and exlude white and asian kids.
(sarcasm off)
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:33:39 AM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
To: mathprof
or pass legislation requiring %s of blacks regardless of academic performance...
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:36:22 AM PDT
by
Cinnamon
To: nmh
The problem, of course, is that black culture just does not emphasize academic achievement. Plain and simple. Liberals can scream all they want to about "institutional racism," and I'll just keep on laughing in their face.
To: mathprof
Considering this is the Sun paper i'm surprised they haven't found a way to blame Bush or 'the republican controlled congress' for this yet.
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:37:52 AM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: mathprof
Panic! Crisis! I'm imagining administrators running around in circles crying, "Blacks!! We need more blacks!! Where can we find some blacks??"
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:38:07 AM PDT
by
wizardoz
To: wizardoz
So Afram students don't wanna go there. How is that a crisis? UCLA should just take what they get. Whomever applies, applies. Choose from those.
To: kinoxi
To: nmh
We need Afro-centric education, to make everyone feel good! Did you know atomic energy was used in Zimbabwe 50, 000 years ago?;)
To: OldChicago23
is that black culture just does not emphasize academic achievementAnd those black families that do emphasize academic achievement routinely find themselves the brunt of ridicule in many black communities.
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:43:53 AM PDT
by
technomage
(NEVER underestimate the depths to which liberals will stoop for power.)
To: mathprof
Since when do you HAVE to have a degree to make it in this world? I know several people who have jobs with salaries that blow away what some of the people with degrees make!!
In this country - you can make it with hard work and doing what you have to do in order to succeed.
Some are just not college material and apprenticeships, etc suit them better.
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:44:19 AM PDT
by
LADY J
To: mathprof
Ward Connerly, the former UC regent who was an architect of Proposition 209, said the issue was not the law. "The problem - and this is an old song, I know - starts with the small number of black students who are academically competitive," he said. Ward Connerly is a good man - but hated by the lib blacks - he's "off" the reservation -actually puts the blame on the students, like Cosby does.
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:44:30 AM PDT
by
maine-iac7
(Lincoln: "...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.")
To: mathprof
The situation is too late to fix by the time these kids get to college, they are too far behind and need too much remedial help. Letting in sub-par students so that they fail and drop out helps no one.
If anything is to be done it has to be at the grade school and middle school level.
To: mathprof
No need to get alarmed over seeing fewer black students in colleges...there just are fewer of them graduating high school...
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:47:23 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: OldChicago23
"The problem, of course, is that black culture just does not emphasize academic achievement. Plain and simple. Liberals can scream all they want to about "institutional racism," and I'll just keep on laughing in their face."
That my friend is a FACT!
THAT is why Asians do so well. They're not born smarted. It's the PARENTS pushing them. It's their culture - ACHIEVEMENT DRIVEN. THAT is NOT happening in MOST black homes and unfortunately less is happening in WHITE HOMES. In Indian (India) households it is STILL happening.
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:47:23 AM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
To: mathprof
We are approaching the point, if not already past it, at which time we will have to choose between excellence in academe or inclusion. Discussions already classify 1st, 2nd and 3rd tier academic institutions. Furthermore, we cannot complain about performance among our students vis a vis other countries, while at the same time proving the point in such instances as this entering UCLA class: either you can cut it or not.
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:47:38 AM PDT
by
combat_boots
(Dug in and not budging an inch. NOT to be schiavoed, greered, or felosed as a patient)
To: mathprof
Apparently the asian students cant dunk.
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:48:18 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: wizardoz
Where can we find some blacks?? Recruit black Muslims from Africa. Double whammy - they're black and they're Muslim.
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:48:45 AM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: technomage
"And those black families that do emphasize academic achievement routinely find themselves the brunt of ridicule in many black communities."
Or those families that do emphasize academic achievement are more conservative, don't give a rip what their "community" thinks and won't pay for their kid to get a worthless liberal education at UCLA? :)
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posted on
06/04/2006 9:49:25 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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