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发帖数: 905 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 ChinaNews 讨论区 】
发信人: zing20 (五湖四海), 信区: ChinaNews
标 题: 美国大学应当取消把种族作为录取审核的条件之一吗? 请讨论
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Dec 6 13:35:33 2011, 美东)
虽然这个讨论与中国新闻不太相关，但鉴于这里的id大多在美国。我认为值得我们进行讨论。我仔细看了正反两方的意见，倾向于支持取消种族作为录取审核的条件之一。如果80-20支持该观点，我将考虑捐款。
各位有何看法？
发信人: spectrum805 (spectrum805), 信区: Parenting
标 题: 我们需要用政治来消除孩子爬藤的人为障碍吗?
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Dec 5 12:21:19 2011, 美东)
记得上次大家讨论过一个加州的法案：是否要推翻高校录取时用的affirmative action。我听说当加州大学系统不使用族裔（race）作为录取审核的条件之一时，加大（UC System)亚裔的录
取率增大了一倍。现在美国最高法院有一个案子有可能帮我们的孩子增大入公立学校和
私立学校的可能性。亚裔维权组织80-20明天的Board Meeting将讨论是否他们要介入。
如果您认为他们应该介入来告诉最高法院我们亚裔的观点的话，请在楼下排队。如果你
觉得不需要的，也请说明理由：
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这是80-20最新的newsletter：
A momentous decision, deeply impacting Asian Am. youths, will be made by 80-20 tomorrow. Please read this e-newsletter and let me know YOUR view before Tuesday's vote.
80-20's Executive Committee voted 5 yeses & 1 abstain to call a Board mmeeting tomorrow to vote on a motion to file a "friend of the court" (amicus curiae)
brief with the Supreme Court supporting the banning of race as a decision
making factor in college admission.
Currently, Asian Am. college applicants face an apparently much higher admission bar* to enter first tier universities -- a situation twice confirmed by our Supreme Court to be legal.
However, the Supreme Court's composition has changed. Samuel Alito has replaced Sandra O'Conner, who voted with the last ruling in a 5-to-4 decision. Alito has consistently voted against the use of racial classification. Hence legal experts are predicting a reversal when the court takes up the "Fisher versus Univ.of Texas" case. Click on a NY Times article for more information
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/sunday-review/college-diversi
Should the Supreme Court reverse it, the student body at the University
of Texas and many other public colleges and FIRST TIER private universities
would almost instantly become whiter and more Asian, and less black and Hispanic.
However, 80-20 is pleased to learn that the ABSOLUTE number of black and
Hispanic students and graduates are NOT expected to decrease. See a recent
Washington Post article by George Will:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-unintended-consequen .
Tell us YOUR view, before the 80-20 Board's vote is taken.
To join, using a credit card, click on http://www.80-20initiative.net . Or
send your check to
80-20 PAC
13337 South St. #189
Cerritos, CA 90703. â
Basic $35; Family â50; Student $15; Life Member $1,000.
Respectfully yours,
S. B. Woo
* A study by Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade examined applicants to
top colleges from 1997, when the maximum SAT score was 1600 (today it's
2400). Espenshade found that Asian-Americans needed a 1550 SAT to have an
equal chance of getting into an elite college as white students with a 1410
or
black students with an 1100. However, SAT score is not the only factor in
admission considerations.
PS: See an USA Today article, "Some Asians' college strategy: 5234 Don't
check 'Asian'"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2011-12-03/asian-s
(Imagine that. Will we survive as a minority if our youths feel that way?) |
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