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Liberty Magazine ^ | August, 2003 | Alec Mouhibian

Posted on 07/23/2003 12:27:02 PM PDT by Alec Mouhibian

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Yes, I just graduated from high school, and this piece is published in the current issue of Liberty Magazine (August, 2003). You can find it at Borders and Barnes&Nobles everywhere.
1 posted on 07/23/2003 12:27:03 PM PDT by Alec Mouhibian
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To: Alec Mouhibian; Cathryn Crawford; Scenic Sounds; RJCogburn; mhking; Pokey78
What a great piece, Alec. How did you get stuck on the chat side, though? This belongs on the main forum. Bumping for talent. How 'bout it, ping masters?
2 posted on 07/23/2003 3:33:20 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: rdb3; Khepera; elwoodp; MAKnight; condolinda; mafree; Trueblackman; FRlurker; Teacher317; ...
Impressive!

Black conservative ping

If you want on (or off) of my black conservative ping list, please let me know via FREEPmail. (And no, you don't have to be black to be on the list!)

Extra warning: this is a high-volume ping list.

3 posted on 07/23/2003 4:02:34 PM PDT by mhking
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To: Alec Mouhibian; gcruse; ValenB4; Scenic Sounds; Sir Gawain; geedee; DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet; ...
Ping...read this!
4 posted on 07/23/2003 4:03:24 PM PDT by Cathryn Crawford (Why don't you think I'm a neocon?)
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To: gcruse
excellent. thanks for the ping.
5 posted on 07/23/2003 4:03:51 PM PDT by RJCogburn ("We don't know no Emmitt Quincy."......Emmitt Quincy)
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To: Cathryn Crawford; Alec Mouhibian
(The question of how this enthusiasm, strength and purpose is going to magically appear in a tough university atmosphere, when it hasn’t been enough to sustain a requisite performance in a low-level high school, goes unanswered.)

What a great article and a great post.

The dumbing down of America continues in runaway fashion.

BTTT for a great read.

6 posted on 07/23/2003 4:10:34 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (Rats are showing all the symptoms of severe radiation poisoning)
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To: Alec Mouhibian
Awesome piece. BTTT!
7 posted on 07/23/2003 4:13:00 PM PDT by Sloth ("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
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"University staffers have coached minority students on how to identify and present their hardships.”

Gack, gack.
8 posted on 07/23/2003 4:13:41 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: Alec Mouhibian
I hate that you write better than me.

Well, with any luck, all writing will be outsourced to India and you won't have a job like the rest of America.

9 posted on 07/23/2003 4:15:20 PM PDT by Lazamataz (PROUDLY POSTING WITHOUT READING THE ARTICLE SINCE 1999!)
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To: Lazamataz
What gripes me is people like Alec and Cathryn are damned near kids, but have a great future in media. While me, what do I have? Get over here, bitch, and sing something!!!
10 posted on 07/23/2003 4:18:41 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: gcruse
I despise the fact that today's youth outshines us in every way.

Well, at least I rest happy in the knowledge that time will wound them with paunch, fading eyesight, and progressive obsolescence.

Kinda like how it did to us.

11 posted on 07/23/2003 4:26:20 PM PDT by Lazamataz (PROUDLY POSTING WITHOUT READING THE ARTICLE SINCE 1999!)
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To: gcruse; Cathryn Crawford
Nice article. We got us another great writer here!

Welcome to the crazy world of college admissions!

Here's an assignment for "extra credit": Using a "strict construction" of the fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause, see if you can explain why a state college should be permitted to discriminate on the basis of grades or SAT scores but not on the basis of race or ethnicity.

Thanks for the ping!! I'll keep my eye out for more articles by this guy.

12 posted on 07/23/2003 4:27:25 PM PDT by Scenic Sounds (Summertime!)
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If I'm still around to see it, I'll cackle out loud.
13 posted on 07/23/2003 4:29:43 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: Alec Mouhibian
Outstanding. Well done. Bravo.

Choose the compliment, it fits. This is a phenomenal article.

14 posted on 07/23/2003 4:30:11 PM PDT by William McKinley (Go Postal!)
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To: gcruse
If I'm still around to see it, I'll cackle out loud.

Yeah, IF we can get our bifocals on, and IF the nurse wheels us around so we can see them, and IF our dentures hold, we'll be able to cackle at them.

IF.

15 posted on 07/23/2003 4:33:29 PM PDT by Lazamataz (PROUDLY POSTING WITHOUT READING THE ARTICLE SINCE 1999!)
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To: Lazamataz; gcruse; Alec Mouhibian
You guys stop whining because Alec and I are simply wiser than you two despite our youth. We can't help it. We were born that way. :-)
16 posted on 07/23/2003 4:39:58 PM PDT by Cathryn Crawford (Why don't you think I'm a neocon?)
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You guys stop whining because Alec and I are simply wiser than you two despite our youth.

Oh, yeah?  Then get Wilson and Rebecca out of that mess!  :)
17 posted on 07/23/2003 4:46:22 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: gcruse
I'd love to - but I have to get out of another mess first. :)
18 posted on 07/23/2003 4:49:04 PM PDT by Cathryn Crawford (Why don't you think I'm a neocon?)
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To: Alec Mouhibian
Kid, you do not need college. You are already a better writer and a more sensible thinker than 95% of the professors in the humanities. There is nothing, nothing, nothing those people can teach you. Take it from me. I have a B.A. in English, a B.A. in French, an M.A. in applied linguistics, and did three years in a Ph.D. program in Anthropology. I've published, I've taught, I've edited scholarly journals, I've done fieldwork.... what do you think you'll get from these smug, useless, socks-and-sandals wearing tofu-eating latte-sipping pony-tailed fascists?
19 posted on 07/23/2003 4:56:17 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (Let them eat cake.)
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The UC system spends $85 million a year on its outreach program.

This is a key statement. There are only about 201,000 students total registered with the UC system for 2003. Make a broad assumption that one quarter of those are freshman (the other three quarters being non-freshman undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral). So, $85M divided by 50K equals $1700 per student per YEAR spent on this stuff. Of course, only a fraction of those 50K students needed the services of this outreach program, so on a per student basis of those who need the services (say 10%), this works out to be $17,000 per outreach student. Tax dollars at work, I presume.

20 posted on 07/23/2003 4:57:22 PM PDT by dark_lord (The Statue of Liberty now holds a baseball bat and she's yelling 'You want a piece of me?')
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