Listen to brave Jennifer Gratz speaking at Michigan State on how she successfully sued the University of Michigan for its palpably obvious discrimination. If you can start at 4:20 2:00, where she's absolutely spot on. How for years the university engaged in the most retrograde two-tier system of admitting students, and not thinking they were in the wrong whatsoever. Some lies are so big they're hard to see.
I'll never forget how my black West Point roommate got kicked out for academic failure in the middle of his junior year. He had a 0.7 GPA; I left after two years with a 2.1. He gets a full boat scholarship to an excellent school, Emory in Atlanta. I get treated with contempt by lessers--Indiana, Wisconsin, Miami of Ohio--since my GPA was far from the minimum 3.5 required for transfers. For lowly white guys, apparently. We don't count for much in university.
(My high school academic record was also much stronger than my roommate's, who had had to attend the prep school for a year, which they do for aspiring athletes and minority students and others with not-so-strong academic backgrounds.)
I really hope Beezlebub and my three sons aren't treated to the Trotskyite persecution I felt at university. In fact, I'm going to encourage my boys to attend tiny, right-wing colleges like Hillsdale in Michigan or St. Thomas More in Merrimack, NH. And they are going to pay for a significant portion of it. I'll take care of books and room and board. Tuition's on them. Better yet, learn a trade, sons. You should see what the sheet rock installer down the road has for a house. He makes a lot more money than I, who spend far too many years in the la-la land of academe.
I'll never forget how my black West Point roommate got kicked out for academic failure in the middle of his junior year. He had a 0.7 GPA; I left after two years with a 2.1. He gets a full boat scholarship to an excellent school, Emory in Atlanta. I get treated with contempt by lessers--Indiana, Wisconsin, Miami of Ohio--since my GPA was far from the minimum 3.5 required for transfers. For lowly white guys, apparently. We don't count for much in university.
(My high school academic record was also much stronger than my roommate's, who had had to attend the prep school for a year, which they do for aspiring athletes and minority students and others with not-so-strong academic backgrounds.)
I really hope Beezlebub and my three sons aren't treated to the Trotskyite persecution I felt at university. In fact, I'm going to encourage my boys to attend tiny, right-wing colleges like Hillsdale in Michigan or St. Thomas More in Merrimack, NH. And they are going to pay for a significant portion of it. I'll take care of books and room and board. Tuition's on them. Better yet, learn a trade, sons. You should see what the sheet rock installer down the road has for a house. He makes a lot more money than I, who spend far too many years in the la-la land of academe.
I take it back. If you start at 2:00 you get a fully treatment of the blatant discriminatory path U of M had taken with respect to admitting freshmen, by employing two separate grids.