Posted on 02/08/2009 8:12:00 AM PST by stan_sipple
The Women’s Center hasn’t closed its doors.
A scholarship recognizing contributions to Native heritage remains available.
And an on-campus summit focused on empowering black men will go on as planned next month.
Two and a half weeks after a judge upheld a new state law banning race- and gender-based affirmative action at public institutions, University of Nebraska-Lincoln leaders are finding the worst-case outcomes they once feared haven’t come to fruition.
To be sure, the campus has had to make some adjustments: UNL has added two essay questions to its admissions application inviting students to write about their contributions to diversity, for example, and a bill in the Legislature seeks to remove any mention of race from a diversity-based scholarship program.
But UNL leaders say despite the new law, they’re more committed than ever to building a diverse campus.
And they say they’re confident they’ll be able to meet that goal.
“The biggest challenge now is to find those proxies for diversity that are independent of race,” said Craig Munier, UNL director of scholarships and financial aid. “That will be more difficult, more challenging, more time-consuming. But it’s still certainly doable …
“The chancellor has made it very clear that we’re committed to being a diverse institution, and I think that’s important. That’s who we want to be, and that’s what Nebraskans want us to be.”
(Excerpt) Read more at journalstar.com ...
Waiting for Zero to sign an Executive Order banning the banning of affirmative action policies. Federal Orders trump State’s Rights you know. He won the election.
Here’s a novel idea, how about admitting students based on their acedemic abilities instead of their race?
“proxies for diversity”! I can’t believe he actually said it.
Sorry Mr. Smith, we just aren’t interested in you as an independent, accomplished individual. Come back when you’re ready to be a proxy for your collective race. That’s diversity!
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“The biggest challenge now is to find those proxies for diversity that are independent of race,” said Craig Munier, UNL director of scholarships and financial aid.
These leftists are so transparent. The law that bans race-based and gender-based affirmative action has been upheld. So, what do the "educrats" do in response. Do they abide by the law? No, of course not. Rather, they work overtime to find ways to continue using affirmative action, while disguising it as something else.
They are racking their brains to find ways to pretend that they've eliminated race and gender bias in their admissions process, while still maintaining it. The answers to those essay questions will undoubtedly permit the admissions office to keep a stealth race/gender list of applicants that can be used to defy the intent of the law.
With a statement like “The chancellor has made it very clear that we’re committed to being a diverse institution, and I think that’s important. That’s who we want to be, and that’s what Nebraskans want us to be.”, it's clear that the marching orders are to spit in the face of the law and continue doing what they've been doing all along, except to be more careful in hiding it. Nudge nudge, wink wink, lie lie. What evidence points to the "fact" that being a "diverse" (code word for affirmative action) institution is what Nebraskans want? The article states, Voters in November widely approved the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative, a constitutional amendment banning racial and gender preferences in public admissions and hiring decisions., which, to anybody who is not an educrat, means that the chancellor's statement was pure rubbish.
Wouldn't it have been refreshing for the chancellor to have said something like, "we're committed to being an institution focused on excellence, with no regard to race or gender"? Not gonna happen. And Western civilization continues its decline as a result.
Perhaps a good way to combat this would be for civil rights suits to be filed not only against the offending institutions, but also personally against offenders such as the chancellor and the "Craig Munier" mentioned in the article.
And that essay is in itself, discriminatory.
What would a kid from, say, northwestern Nebraska be able to put down?
A law professor told me that if a state bans affirmative action, such proxies are likewise illegal.
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