Bias Against Asians in College Admission?

choi

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Kara Miller, Do colleges redline Asian-Americans?  Boston Globe, Feb. 8,
2010 (op-ed).
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/02/08/do_colleges_redline_asian_americans/

Note: redlining (n): "arbitrary practice by which banks limit or refuse to
grant mortgage loans for properties in blighteed urban areas [so called
because such areas are said to be encircled by red pencil on maps]"
Random House Dictionary of English Language (1981)

Thus, this word is different from China's 红线, which is a line (in the sand
) not to be crossed.

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choi

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One might argue that colleges do not discriminate here, for they want to
diversity the student body.

I have no stakes on this, because I no longer go to schools and I have no
children.

No college has ever said there is any limitation on Asian admission--not to
mention cause of limitation such as diversification. That is why I say you
are wrong on facts.

(1) A century ago, colleges openly said there were caps for Jews. That was
in part why Jews opened their own colleges, such as Brandeis University near
Boston and Yeshiva University in New York City (with a medical school). The
pretext of diversification can not work, because that was used against Jews
but deemed inexcusable later. Legally in US, discrimination is not
acceptable, whether against blacks or whites.

(2) For the past several decades, whites has fought tenaciously against
reverse discrimination. And Justice Sandra Day O'Connor spoke for the US
Supreme Court in

Gryther v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-241.ZO.html

(a) that "the Equal Protection Clause [of the federal constitution] does not
prohibit [a public school's] narrowly tailored use of race in admissions
decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational
benefits that flow from a diverse student body." The last paragraph.
(b) But that "[w]e expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial
preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved
today." The penultimate paragraph.

A private college has more leeway in setting criteria to select students.
But there are various federal and state laws prohibiting discrimination in
this league of colleges.

(3) Please consult my posting of yesterday:

剩女 in United States--Everything Is Relative
http://www.yilubbs.com/HT/con_218_M.1265568632.A.htm

Where the New York Times report
(a) quotes female college students, frustrated by lack of men on campus, as
requesting “affirmative action for boys;"
(b) but states, "In December p2009], the United States Commission on Civil
Rights moved to subpoena admissions data from 19 public and private colleges
to look at whether they were discriminating against qualified female
applicants."

【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: Kara Miller, Do colleges redline Asian-Americans?  Boston Globe, Feb. 8,
: 2010 (op-ed).
: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/02/08/do_colleges_redline_asian_americans/
: Note: redlining (n): "arbitrary practice by which
: (以下引言省略...)

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