Saturday,
April 07, 2007
Italian Americans Suffer From
Discriminatory University Admissions Policies
The
ANNOTICO Report
In
Friday's LA Times, they speak of UCLA. Admission
DIVERSITY Policies, but focus mainly on Blacks being underrepresented.
Unbelievably,
it Completely "glosses" over the fact that in the Incoming Students, there are:
43
% incoming Asian students, while they represent 4.4
% of the General Population
33%
incoming "White" students that
represent 70% of the General Population
The
Asians are TEN TIMES Over represented, and the Whites
are 50% Underrepresented.
Please
tell me how in any shape or form, this is an Honest, Fair, Successful
DIVERSITY plan????
And
when one Minority is permitted to OVERWHELM the system, how can that be justified???
Now
keep in mind with every SPECIAL Advantage given to one group, means than
another group is put at a DISADVANTAGE!!!!
When
"So called" Minorities get a disproportionate number of
oversubscribed "Slots" that means that "So Called" Whites
get an
Lesser proportionate number of "slots".
This
means that an ITALIAN
AMERICAN Student IMMEDIATELY
has HALF the Chance Diversity may Entitle him to.
Then
that chance will further diminish because The Jewish Community with it's
political power and intimidation
will occupy a greater share of the "White"
applicants.
That
is one of the PRICES Italian Americans will pay for not being Unified, and
not Speaking with a Coordinated Voice!!!!!!
This
is Outrageous. Is your Italian
American kid going to be herded into a second rate school
because you did not join an Italian American group and do something about
it????
Footnote:
12.6% Latinos, with 12% of the General Population, and 3%
Blacks, with 13% of the General Population
The
Westwood campus offers spots in its fall class to 392 African American
students, up from 249 a year ago.
Los
AngelesTimes
By
Rebecca Trounson and Richard C. Paddock,
Times
Staff Writers
April 6, 2007
UCLA
has offered admission for the fall to 392 African American students, up from
the 249 who were offered a place in the current freshman class, officials
announced Thursday.
That part of the
Overall, 57,318 Californians were offered admission to at least one UC campus;
11,837 students were accepted to UCLA.
Acting UCLA Chancellor Norman Abrams, who pushed the campus toward implementing
a more "holistic" admissions process for the fall, partly in response
to the low African American numbers, said Thursday he was pleased.
"It was heartening to see that the African American numbers and the
proportion of underrepresented minorities in general went up this year,"
Abrams said. "To see that our academic numbers have also risen somewhat is
also a very good sign."
Abrams said UCLA officials would study the admissions data to learn the reasons
for the changes this year, which also included an increase in Latino and white
freshman admissions and a drop in that for Asians.
He said some of the shifts might be year-to-year fluctuations and others could
be the result of the new admissions system, which UCLA officials have said is
fairer for all applicants because it allows their achievements to be viewed in
context.
But the chancellor emphasized that UCLA had not and under
Ward Connerly, the conservative former UC regent and
architect of Proposition 209, was skeptical.
"One of three things must be happening," Connerly
said Thursday. "Black kids have either gotten extremely smart or extremely
competitive in a way they weren't five or six years ago, or there's been a
deliberate, carefully orchestrated effort by a lot of admissions people to
conspire to increase those numbers, or they've found a proxy for race."
But about a dozen members of a community coalition that has pushed UCLA for
change held a news conference Thursday to praise the school and its leaders.
"We are characterizing this as a positive first step," said Akili, a community activist and member of the Alliance for
Equal Opportunity in Education, a consortium of leaders from African American
churches, civil rights organizations and UCLA student and alumni groups that
formed after the enrollment numbers were released last June.
Akili, who uses one name, said the group plan ned to press UC officials to adopt
UCLA's holistic admissions system at all campuses. Currently, only UCLA and UC
Berkeley use the process, which allows admissions readers to view all
information about a student at the same time.
Overall, the numbers released by UCLA on Thursday showed that the proportion of
Latino, African American and Native American freshmen accepted for the fall was
16.6%, up from 14.4% for current freshmen.
Along with the percentage of black students, which went up from 2.1% a year ago
to 3.4% now, the proportions of Latino and white students also rose for the
newly admitted class. Latinos make up 12.8% (1,470 students) of the fall class,
up from 11.9% (1,403 students) this year. The number of white students was the
same both years: 3,791, although officials said that the figure represented a
marginally higher percentage (33%) of 2007's slightly smaller admitted class.
The proportion of Asian and Asian American students offered UC LA admission
dropped slightly, from 45.6% for current freshmen or 5,390 students to 43.1%, or 4,956 students for the incoming class. But as they have
for many years, such students made up the largest racial or ethnic group in the
newly admitted class.
Candice Shikai, a UCLA junior who is a leader of
UCLA's Asian Pacific Coalition, noted the drop in Asian Americans in the
admitted class, but said she and other Asian American students were happy to
see black admissions rise.
"It's really great that the African American admissions increased, but I
think we still need to realize that there are communities within the Asian
community Pacific Islanders and
some of the Southeast Asian communities that still lack access," Shikai said. "So those numbers were a little
disappointing."
On campus Thursday, some students said they were not aware of the admissions
statistics; others were, and emphasized the importance of diversity at a
college campus.
" I think it's good, but I don't think it's good
enough," said history student Aaron Whittington. "I would like to see
numbers high for all minorities on campus, not just African Americans."
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