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Scholarship Created for Whites Only
It should be interesting how this plays out. A student group at Roger Williams University is offering a new scholarship for which only white students are eligible, a move they say is designed to protest affirmative action. 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."
see below 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 shouldnât really be an option," he said. "Many people think that coming from a white background youâre automatically privileged, youâre automatically rich and your parents pay full tuition. Thatâs just not the case." The stunt has angered some at the university, but the administration is staying out of the fray. The schoolâs provost said it is a student groupâs initiative and is not endorsed by Roger Williams. 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, Iâm 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 weekâs issue of the universityâs student newspaper to tout the scholarship, which was for $50 until two donors came forward to add $100 each during the weekend, Mattera said. Itâs not the first brush with controversy for the group. The school temporarily froze the Republicansâ 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. ACLU Lawsuit in..5..4...3...2...1... Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-02-16 |
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