Minorities at Hillsdale?

YAHA
Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:19:00 +0000

First of all, I am glad you are happy with NYU. More wind into your sail (no sarcasm). One of my friends has a MS in FE from there and he is doing really well.

Talking about minorities does irritate me. In fact, any kind of grouping and classifying of people irritates me in general. George Carlin used to say: “I love people and absolutely despise the groups they belong to and associate with.” It describes my view to the dot.

You are missing an important point from my post. The fact that you do not see color when looking at people is great, but it would be all too simple if we could solve the entire problem with that. Once again, as long as the institution itself (through government mandated quotas) “sees” the color of the skin, we cannot talk about “merits” or “justice” or any other cute words that are thrown around.



“I purposely chose to omit my ethnicity or demographical background information off every single college-related application, document, or form . . . simply because I wanted to be judged solely by the criteria I ought to be, the quantitative and qualitative aspects of my candidacy”

I hate to repeat myself but here it goes. Say some “minority” guy did not omit those criteria. Say his scores and stats are lower than yours. Who is to guarantee that he would not be accepted in your place (purely hypothetical situation since you are obviously already in school). If anything, the present situation makes the representatives of the “majority” prove themselves harder than they otherwise would need to because of such things as Affirmative Action, artificial diversification (my term), etc.



“You lauding one school so blindly is almost as irksome as how liberal you are with punctuation.”

You should do better than attacking me personally. Granted, I am pretty casual with my grammar and punctuation. I have a limited intelligence and tend to use it in a particular direction (grammar is not it ). Plus, this is a casual place, not a legal department. We are all just conversing here (or at least I am ), so I make myself sound like I do in real life.

Also, I am not saying that Hillsdale is the heaven on Earth (I am sure some think so). What I am saying is that the college is one of the few that are on the right side of justice and truth (speaking strictly of non-acceptance of federal money and color-blind policy). Those two alone were the reasons I chose to come here. The idea of a well-rounded liberal arts education started to grow on me later.



“Where do you live, if you don’t mind me asking? I’m kind of interested to get a bit of insight as to the parameters you’ve lived in.”

This is irrelevant to the discussion. I consider myself stateless. I don’t associate with any groups, religions, etc. I do associate with like-minded people and people who hold a similar philosophical view of the world. :)