God I love the culture of victimization! "I'm more of a victim than you!" "No...I'M MORE OF A VICTIM!" It keeps all of them with their hands outstretched to the government to make them whole again. When only government can make you whole they have achieved what they were after. Servitude. Enjoy it.

as a white male I hope that they keep letting in more minorities. After all, in the next couple of years whites (and especially white males)will be the minority in America and then we can take the educational spots that should normally go to those that are better qualified. We can start getting scholarships that will ONLY go to white males and we can learn at all white colleges. fair is fair; right?

when whites are actually a minority does anybody actually believe that whites will benefit from reverse descriminiation? it will never happen.

What part of "two wrongs dont make a right" is so hard to understand? Institutionalized reverse descrimination is just as bad as hate based race descrimination.

grandys618
Sep 13, 2011 at 10:24 a.m.
The way I read it, the Republicans and you included just want to create diversions and split good people up with this type of garbage.
You soon flip the race card issue on this one, but we aint falling for it.

And here's the head of that Center: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Chave...
nuff said.

The whole announcement is flamebait. Here's what I found (albeit it's 5 years old). From http://apa.wisc.edu/Surveys/UnderSurvey0...
"1303 undergraduate students responded to the 2006 survey, including 311 minority students and 676 female students."
Wikipedia says: "According to the 2010 Census the state's population is: 83.3% Caucasian, 6.3% African American, 5.9% Hispanic, 2.3% Asian,1.0% Native American, and 1.8% of mixed race."

Sarah: Since when did UW become your school? It belongs to all of the tax payers not just you as you implied!

Center for Equal Opportunity is actually funded by mostly two sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Fou...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Oli...

where is jesse jackson when you need him, Oh, that right there is no money for him to protest this. Darn, he is such a good speaker and he has a good heart. LOL

sarahb1-- you crack me up with your questions, the money comes from you as well as UW system, taxes. This is true for all colleges. They actually call it the equalization factor. The majority of the minorities play sports and the university get's full tuition reimbursement for this from the govt. Keep in mind-- it is all about the MONEY!!!

oh77lance: That is true thanks for the correction!

johnnyreb; my race is human, my nationality is American.

Until the question of what race you are in outlawed on all applications whether it be for a job,schooling,finicial,ect ect. The race card will always be played whether it be for or against a certain race. BTW my race is AMERICAN!

Has anyone ever been denied a job because of the color of their skin? I have. And I am white. (That's what they label me , but I am actually Irish American). Anyhow, back in the early 80's I was told by the human resources rep at Taylor Freezer in Rockton, Il, that even though I was the most qualified applicant they could not hire me at this time because they had to increase their minority employee numbers. Has anyone else experienced the same thing? I will be honest, it sucked. And at the time I really needed the job.

Grandys - I thought you may want to just drop this but I will reluctantly go back and do some cuts and pastes so others can see what was said if that is what you want. I am very happy that you do not support Jim Crow laws and have finally stated that. I am still troubled about the intend of ALEC's voter ID law template and the intent of your words supporting it, however.

Really I hardly see an issue. Lots of kids get into colleges for all sorts of reasons. Some because of who they know, some because of color, some because mom and dad have big bucks, and most get in because of hard work. Just like always.
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I don't get too excited about the things that affect very little, like this.

Diversity! No problem with that,but if you can not cut the mustard,you should not go in front of the line just because of color,by doing so,aren't the ones allowing it to happen,keeping prejudice a live??
The white kids that deserve to be ahead of the line,will and do see this as a race thing, because of someone that is less qualified then they are to have a better education. There are all Black colleges,i think it's time to have all White colleges.
I would like to know how these Black colleges qualify admittance,do they put less qualified students ahead of their more qualified counter parts?

I think I have more problems with them admitting out of state (or out of country) applicants with lower test scores over state residents than I necessarily do over the ethnic disparities. These university systems are supported in part by my tax dollars, and if my 3.5 GPA child cannot get in because someone out of state with a 3.0 does, then I will be upset. The percentage of applicants of each ethnic group accepted depends on how many apply and what the range of their credentials may be, just as zdog states so succinctly.

How many applicants in each group?
Statistics are always limited by their parameters.

i'm sure the number of white applicants blows away the number of any other groups applicants. The fact they have a lower percentage chosen is not surprising. When you throw lots of crap at the wall, lots of crap falls off.

"They say academic achievement shouldn't be the only factor in deciding who to admit."

Actually, that is very true and has been a policy at UW-Madison as long as I can remember. You can't just look at test scores. They base their admission decisions on many factors. Look at their application form. There's so much more there than test scores.

Memo to the AP: We knew this already.

We need to discriminate in the name of diversity.

Discrimination and racism is the same whether you are talking white,black,brown,or any other color of the spectrum.NVgrf your comment is disgusting-funny how bigotry by the left is always acceptable

Oops! Another race card played.

I believe that the Klan and White People's Socialist Party are on board with that too.