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Monica Monarez
English 1C
15 April 2015
Assignment 5
a college degree. Anything other than the ambition of wanting to better their
racially diverse than in the past, colleges may pass up equally or more talented
College classrooms today are more racially diverse than they were in the
past. In the mid 1960s racial discrimination was a huge problem in the United
discrimination, has played a key role in helping minorities get ahead in the past,
Khin Mai Aung, a Staff Attorney at the Asian American Legal Defense and
Education Fund. Laws that were implemented to prevent unfair treatment created
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regulated preferences towards a specific race, which in the past were needed;
however this is not the case anymore. The United States desperately needed
people lived in. U.S. News & World Report surveyed 286 of the top national
universities for the 2013-2014 school year and of these schools 43% were greater
than 50% racially diverse. This shows that Affirmative Action played a successful
part in the diversity that was so much needed in the past. President Barrack Obama
talked about his support on not making race a factor in education, If we have done
what needs to be done to ensure that kids who are qualified to go to college can
afford it, then affirmative action becomes a diminishing tool for us to achieve
racial equality in this society. Affirmative Action did what it intended, now it is
time to eliminate these laws completely. In the past it was hard for many people of
facilitate diversity into higher education institutions that has been something in the
past, this is not the case today. Instead, policy makers emphasized students
opportunity to compete for college admissions ignoring that the opportunities for
and impediments to success at different high schools varied widely across the state.
The implication of these findings is that as policy becomes race neutral, discourse
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inequalities. (Wagner)
Colleges may pass up equally or more talented students when using race as a
admissions, they are required to only allow a specific number of individuals from
an ethnic group. If colleges are not accepting students based on their race, they
student, applied to the University of Texas and ended up suing the university due to
illegal discrimination:
In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 71 decision in the first
major affirmative action case it had considered in a decade. The case, Fisher
Texas in Austin, which automatically accepted students who were in the top
10 percent of their high school classes, but considered race in the second
round of acceptances. Abigail Fisher, a white applicant who had been denied
Fisher could have contributed and gained educational standing, but because of race
she was never allowed to participate in the college of her choice. Race is not
activities they pursue, and many other factors that college admissions concern
themselves about. College admissions should admit students that are academically
suited for their school based on the standards provided in their college applications.
not the color of their students skin. It is unfair and unconstitutional to give people
than the color of tier pupils skin. Therefore, race should not be the reason for
not the color of their skin. Allowing race to be considered a factor in college
admissions is illogical because students have no control over their race. Robert
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Scime, a junior in Mass Communications and columnists, speaks for the college
students of the University of South Florida about the issue of racial profiling:
the course of American history, racism has changed substantially from the
times of segregation and the civil rights movement to the present. However,
racism will never be fully eradicated until the color of a person's skin is a
not need to be practiced in the present, nor the future. Not accepting a student and
the acceptance of a student based on their ethnicity is modern day racism on behalf
of all college admissions departments in the United States. No persons race should
something that as needed I the past, it is not the case today. Using affirmative
action improved education in the past, but is not needed now. Race is not
something that defines who someone is as a person and what why they should not
(Robin)
Whether because of the past or how a specific race was treated in the past,
race should not be a considering factor for college admissions. A college education
should be available to anyone that is willing to work for it. No matter the color of
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Liu Hopson, Robin. "What Does Race Have To Do With It? Challenging