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The Mad Monk
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of Ice Cream
Mar 2000
time: 23:31
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Texas University Shuts Down Bake Sale
By Associated Press
September 24, 2003, 11:17 PM EDT
DALLAS -- Southern Methodist University shut down a bake sale Wednesday in which cookies were offered for sale at different prices, depending on the buyer's race or gender.
The sale was organized by the Young Conservatives of Texas, who said it was intended as a protest of affirmative action.
A sign said white males had to pay $1 for a cookie. The price was 75 cents for white women, 50 cents for Hispanics and 25 cents for blacks.
Members of the conservative group said they meant no offense and were only trying to protest the use of race or gender as a factor in college admissions.
Similar sales have been held by College Republican chapters at colleges in at least five other states since February.
A black student filed a complaint with SMU, saying the sale was offensive. SMU officials said they halted the event after 45 minutes because it created a potentially unsafe situation.
"This was not an issue about free speech," Tim Moore, director of the SMU student center, said in a story for Thursday's edition of The Dallas Morning News. "It was really an issue where we had a hostile environment being created."
The sale drew a crowd outside the student center and several students engaged in a shouting match, Moore said.
David C. Rushing, 23, a law student and chairman of Young Conservatives of Texas at SMU and for the state, said the event didn't get out of hand. At most, a dozen students gathered around the table of cookies and Rice Krispies treats, he said.
"We copied what's been done at multiple campuses around the country to illustrate our opinion of affirmative action and how we think it's unfair," he said.
Matt Houston, a 19-year-old sophomore, called the group's price list offensive.
"My reaction was disgust because of the ignorance of some SMU students," said Houston, who is black. "They were arguing that affirmative action was solely based on race. It's not based on race. It's based on bringing a diverse community to a certain organization."
The group sold three cookies during its protest, raising $1.50.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled universities could use race as a factor in admissions under limited conditions. In Texas, universities had been banned from using race as a factor under a 1996 decision by a lower court.
Copyright © 2003, The Associated Press
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Well...I thought it was clever...
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Ecthy
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Zhonghuà Rénmín Gònghéguó
Mar 2000
time: 06:31
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Originally posted by Q Cubed
what did we slant-eyes have to pay?
the white price? or the minority price? |
yeah, did they sell chicook for chiprice as well?
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Lincoln
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"My reaction was disgust because of the ignorance of some SMU students," said Houston, who is black. "They were arguing that affirmative action was solely based on race. It's not based on race. It's based on bringing a diverse community to a certain organization."
Well maybe they were trying to bring the diverse community to the cookie sale?
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Q Cubed
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t3h y3ll0w p3ril
Apr 1999
time: 23:31
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hey, many universities are diverse enough!
i mean, you have your whites, you have your jews, you have your koreans, your japanese, your han chinese, your vietnamese, your hmong, your laotians, your filipino, your cantonese, your taiwanese...
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Lincoln
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Actually, though at first glance I thought the idea is clever, it is really very cruel. If I was a struggling black student and finally made my way into a university the best way I could I would be deeply offended by these tactics. They should direct their gripe to those in authority to change policy. Free speech may enable this protest but common decency condemns it. The minority students are not some kind of pawn to be played for political gain.
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