Maybe Madison should start segregating its classes too. What if the under-qualified minorities can’t keep up? Separate but equal classes.

Will the poor, under-represented males now be given extra consideration, so as to provide the sexual diversity now missing on campus?

I guess that separate and unequal has become legal once again. I wonder what the University will do when the white middle class starts refusing to identify their race on an application or puts down that they are multi-racial.

I would advise every applicant to claim that they are African-American and let the University try to determine that they are not.

“I guess that separate and unequal has become legal once again. I wonder what the University will do when the white middle class starts refusing to identify their race on an application or puts down that they are multi-racial.”

Yeah, poor white guys. It’s almost as if they’re 3/5ths of a real person.

“Maybe Madison should start segregating its classes too”

If Madison ever started segregating its classes by race all the students of color would get great jobs because they would be qualified and culturally competent to work in a diverse global economy, while the “white middle class” kids would end up jobless because of their inability to see that a diverse student body is in their own interst.

“Yeah, poor white guys. It’s almost as if they’re 3/5ths of a real person.”

The person who posted this is obviously ignorant, as this is something that does not pertain to the topic at all and is something that happened over a 100 years ago. I bet that person, doesn’t realize that there are far more poor, impoverished and under represented white people in america than there are african americans.- this is a fact, look it up. With that said, the policy of affirmative action is reverse discrimination, everyone knows that… the question is wheter or not we still need to “equalize” the playing fields… In my opinion, the faster its out of here the better, its something that has been around since the 60’s and it still isn’t working. We need to try something new, I suggest that instead of treating the symptoms which is what UW is now doing, we instead attack the cause of the problem which could start at the elemenatry level of educating- especially in the inner cities, and make undergraduate candidates qualified from the get go.

12:12, that was a pretty lame shot at wit. Until 1830, most states required that voters be white, protestant landowners. Women could not vote in federal elections until 1920. Until 1971, 18-20 year olds could not vote.

Everyone’s been oppressed at one time or another. Perhaps UW should consider an Irish Catholic quota.

“If Madison ever started segregating its classes by race all the students of color would get great jobs because they would be qualified and culturally competent to work in a diverse global economy…”

Because they’d only ever been in class with black people?

ROFLMAO

FTA: “Walsh also said he supports the policy because corporations want students who have experienced diversity so they are adequately prepared for the global workplace.”

The university is not a jobs training ground. That’s what trade schools are for. And globalism crushes individuality and creativity and personal responsibility. You can’t ‘experience’ diversity without those things.

I think it’s ironic that this debate paralells the debate about Iraq. Should we stay and help? Or, should we leave so they can help themselves?

It’s also strange that conservatives and liberals come to contradictory conclusions for Iraq and Affirmative Action.

I personally think UW lacks diversity. Specifically age diversity. Far too many of my classes have people in the high teens, low 20s. We need more infants and geriatrics. My education would greatly benefit learning cooperatively with incontinent classmates, as well as those who do their homework in crayons. There is valuable, wholistic learning to be done by spoon-feeding your lab partner. I think we are all missing valuable learning experiences by not having a more diverse age population.

What the board of regents doesn’t tell you is that the citizens of the state of Michigan passed a ballot proposal banning the use of race and gender as a factor into college admissions.

http://www.michigancivilrights.org/

I have yet to see an interview that has stressed the “diversity” of the other studnes in my classes. For some reason they tend to focus on actual job related skills.

Although many white Americans believe we are all equal, we are not. As a white person, one has more privelege and opportunity compared to a person of color despite thier socioeconomic status. For all of those who disagree with the board’s decision, you are all ignorant fools just like Senator Grothman who is a complete idiot. White people in this country have only succeeded because they have had the help of minorities, like the slaves manning thier plantations and the chinese laying the railroad tracks, etc. Even today, white people need minorites to clean thier bathrooms and cook thier food because they feel like they are superior. And colleges, espacially our own Madison, the flagship school of the UW system, needs more minorities to make itself more appealing to the global job market. So, as much as white people hate to admit it…you need us!

“like the slaves manning thier plantations and the chinese laying the railroad tracks”

BS, not in Wisconsin you idiot!

PS. Where’s my robot cleaning crew, and cook?

“I think it’s ironic that this debate paralells the debate about Iraq. Should we stay and help? Or, should we leave so they can help themselves?

It’s also strange that conservatives and liberals come to contradictory conclusions for Iraq and Affirmative Action.I think it’s ironic that this debate paralells the debate about Iraq. Should we stay and help? Or, should we leave so they can help themselves?

It’s also strange that conservatives and liberals come to contradictory conclusions for Iraq and Affirmative Action.”

What the Hell are you smoking and where can I get some?