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| Scholarship Created for Whites Only | |
| 2004-02-16 | |
| 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 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. 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. ACLU Lawsuit in..5..4...3...2...1... | |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #3 Evidence of bleaching will disqualify applicants, So Michael Jackson is disqualified? And he so needed the $250. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-2-16 10:38:27 PM |
| #2 I see a Wonder Bread sponsorship in their future |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-2-16 10:34:45 PM |
| #1 "why you are proud of your white heritage" LOL! While we embrace diversity in all things musical, did you known that Beethoven was a proud white man? And while G.W. Carver invented peanute butter did you know that most food conglomorates are owned by proud white men? While many minorities excell at the marshall arts, did you know that the term Marshall was named after a proud white man? Did you know that the Trident D5 was mostly built by caucasians? This is just a part of our white heritage. EyeOpener: The language we're speaking was invented by yes..... you got it. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-16 7:12:22 PM |