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Scholarship created for Whites Only..
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,111467,00.html
This is great.. They got scholarships for just mexicans, and just blacks.. which nobody yells about, but I bet this will stir up the stink. I'm all for it though!
Scholarship Created for Whites Only
Sunday, February 15, 2004
BRISTOL, R.I. - A student group at Roger Williams University (search) is offering a new scholarship for which only white students are eligible, a move they say is designed to protest affirmative action (search).
The application for the $250 award requires an essay on "why you are proud of your white heritage" and a recent picture to "confirm whiteness."
"Evidence of bleaching will disqualify applicants," says the application, issued by the university's College Republicans.
Jason Mattera, 20, who is president of the College Republicans, said the group is parodying minority scholarships.
"We think that if you want to treat someone according to character and how well they achieve academically, then skin color shouldn't really be an option," he said. "Many people think that coming from a white background you're automatically privileged, you're automatically rich and your parents pay full tuition. That's just not the case."
The stunt has angered some at the university, but the administration is staying out of the fray. The school's provost said it is a student group's initiative and is not endorsed by Roger Williams (search).
Mattera, who is of Puerto Rican descent, is himself a recipient of a $5,000 scholarship open only to a minority group.
"No matter what my ethnicity is, I'm making a statement that scholarships should be given out based on merit and need," Mattera told the Providence Journal.
His group took out a full-page ad in last week's issue of the university's student newspaper to tout the scholarship, which was for $50 until two donors came forward to add $100 each during the weekend, Mattera said.
It's not the first brush with controversy for the group. The school temporarily froze the Republicans' money in the fall during a fight over a series of articles published in its monthly newsletter. One article alleged that a gay-rights group indoctrinates students into homosexual sex.
www.awbansunset.com
This is great.. They got scholarships for just mexicans, and just blacks.. which nobody yells about, but I bet this will stir up the stink. I'm all for it though!
Scholarship Created for Whites Only
Sunday, February 15, 2004
BRISTOL, R.I. - A student group at Roger Williams University (search) is offering a new scholarship for which only white students are eligible, a move they say is designed to protest affirmative action (search).
The application for the $250 award requires an essay on "why you are proud of your white heritage" and a recent picture to "confirm whiteness."
"Evidence of bleaching will disqualify applicants," says the application, issued by the university's College Republicans.
Jason Mattera, 20, who is president of the College Republicans, said the group is parodying minority scholarships.
"We think that if you want to treat someone according to character and how well they achieve academically, then skin color shouldn't really be an option," he said. "Many people think that coming from a white background you're automatically privileged, you're automatically rich and your parents pay full tuition. That's just not the case."
The stunt has angered some at the university, but the administration is staying out of the fray. The school's provost said it is a student group's initiative and is not endorsed by Roger Williams (search).
Mattera, who is of Puerto Rican descent, is himself a recipient of a $5,000 scholarship open only to a minority group.
"No matter what my ethnicity is, I'm making a statement that scholarships should be given out based on merit and need," Mattera told the Providence Journal.
His group took out a full-page ad in last week's issue of the university's student newspaper to tout the scholarship, which was for $50 until two donors came forward to add $100 each during the weekend, Mattera said.
It's not the first brush with controversy for the group. The school temporarily froze the Republicans' money in the fall during a fight over a series of articles published in its monthly newsletter. One article alleged that a gay-rights group indoctrinates students into homosexual sex.
www.awbansunset.com
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As a college student myself, I look around my campus and notice that more than half of the students are of "minority" ethnicities. More minorities are getting admitted in my school than white students, and not that I hold anything against people of a minority, but I find that as a white American, I have a smaller chance of entering universities such as mine than if I were from Japan,(who of which will most likely recieve a large scholarship, and upon graduating, return to Japan to further his own economy). I believe that the people upholding affirmative action, who are basing their whole regime around "racism" are doing much of the same thing towards the white race, I think if we can find a good balance of scholarships for example, made for people of every ethnicity including white, we can stop racism on an "unspoken" level. I say unspoken for no-one speaks about how whites are all of a sudden being descriminated against in subtle but effective ways. For example, If i was a mexican immigrant trying to start up a business in california, the goverment would fund me before any white individual, because i am simply a "minority". Who is the minority now?
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As a college student myself, I look around my campus and notice that more than half of the students are of "minority" ethnicities. More minorities are getting admitted in my school than white students, and not that I hold anything against people of a minority, but I find that as a white American, I have a smaller chance of entering universities such as mine than if I were from Japan,(who of which will most likely recieve a large scholarship, and upon graduating, return to Japan to further his own economy). I believe that the people upholding affirmative action, who are basing their whole regime around "racism" are doing much of the same thing towards the white race, I think if we can find a good balance of scholarships for example, made for people of every ethnicity including white, we can stop racism on an "unspoken" level. I say unspoken for no-one speaks about how whites are all of a sudden being descriminated against in subtle but effective ways. For example, If i was a mexican immigrant trying to start up a business in california, the goverment would fund me before any white individual, because i am simply a "minority". Who is the minority now?
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I'm all for it, where do you donate????
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I had some health problems and lost my job and have started college full time at the age of 37. My wife works a low paying job and I have 3 kids. I applied for economic based school aid and found out I qualified financially but I was not a minority so I did not qualify. The person flat out told me if I was a female, single parent, or Indian or Black it would be a different story.
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Besides... with our couple of commitments, it's now $350. My eldest daughter works hard, every year, to add a few small scholarships to her large one. Believe me, a few hundred dollars makes a difference to a poor and struggling college student.
I think we GBers ought to take this ball and run with it. Make it a truly meaningful statement the rejects racism.
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Besides a good point![:D]
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