Gay Affirmative Action?
Middlebury College is considering sexual orientation in its admissions decisions:
Middlebury College is this year for the first time giving students who identify themselves as gay in the admissions process an “attribute” — the same flagging of an application that members of ethnic minority groups, athletes, alumni children and others receive, according to Shawn Rae Passalacqua, assistant director of admissions at Middlebury. His announcement surprised many of those who attended the session, and who said that they had never heard of a college having such a policy.
4 comments:
Good for Middlebury. They need some more diversity up there in the cold Vermont woods...
that would be remarkably easy to lie about. not that it's impossible to lie about one's race, but a Holly Wood is generally less Asian than a Xue Sun, and there are other external cues. But anyone secure enough can just check "gay."
I'd have to say I'd not be ok with that.
I know too many people who come from Egyptian Arab descent and round up to "African American". Now that's cheating the system.
On a slightly related note, I wonder if this country will start extending affirmative action to Muslims? We all know that the faith is quickly building a history of oppression.
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