Affirmative Action; what's your take?

[justadream92]

<p>As you can see by the evidence the above posters have laid outt here, the pot’s been stirred hundreds of times Aussie. And by debating with this once more, it’ll just add to the rest of the threads that were hotly contested with misinformation from opionionated ■■■■■■ who took individual experiences out of their personal lives to try and prove points to brick walls. Just stop it while you can.</p>

<p>If you’re really sentimental over it, just read previous threads and choose sides amongst the posters there.</p>

[IBAustralia]

<p>I’m anything but sentimental over it. I want to stir up a debate.</p>

[justadream92]

<p>Well then, good luck.</p>

[IBAustralia]

<p>I know it won’t happen though :(</p>

[BillyMc]

<p>We’ve got a pretty good discussion about how many affirmative action threads there are, at least.</p>

[silverturtle]

<p>If anyone wants to see what turned into a pretty good Affirmative Action debate, see this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/830524-quadruplets-admitted-yale.html?highlight=quadruplets[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/830524-quadruplets-admitted-yale.html?highlight=quadruplets&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

[BillyMc]

<p>Ah, I recall reading some of that thread. Pretty interesting that all four were admitted.</p>

[ksarmand]

<p>This thread is interesting.</p>

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Did you mean to ask whether I could support the statement? If so, I cannot.

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<p>Actually, I wanted to divert the debate; I’m not interested in knowing the actual number.</p>

<p>Looks like that gambit worked.</p>

[silverturtle]

<p>^ Well played.</p>

[Pea]

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Are you guys going to comment on my post?

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<p>OK, I’ll comment on it.</p>

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Minority admissions programs work not because they give black students access to the same rich cultural environment as white students, or any other formal vision of engineered equality. They work by giving black students access to the same white students, as white students, by allowing them to make acquaintances outside their own social world, and so shortening the chain lenghs between them and the best jobs.

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<p>This is one of the most poorly constructed paragraphs I have ever read. The first sentence is not a sentence. If you stop at the comma it is a sentence.</p>

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Minority admissions programs work not because they give black students access to the same rich cultural environment as white students

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<p>But it doesn’t make any sense to tack the following phrase onto the end.</p>

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, or any other formal vision of engineered equality

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<p>I think the second sentence is probably a sentence although it has too many commas and it is unnecessarily confusing</p>

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They work by giving black students access to the same white students, as white students, by allowing them to make acquaintances outside their own social world, and so shortening the chain lenghs between them and the best jobs.

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<p>Giving black students access to the same white students as white students? I had to reread that several times before I had any understanding of what you might have meant.</p>

<p>And chain lenghs? Did you mean chain links or chain lengths? Chain links would be a more common phrase, I’ve never heard of chain lengths before.</p>

[ksarmand]

<p>^Uh, is this the right thread for that?</p>

[Pea]

<p>Your original post may have made sense to you but it didn’t to me. I have to reread it several times before I thought I had some idea of what you were trying to say. I wasn’t complaining about little things like typos but basic sentence construction that for me was covered in junior high school.</p>

[ksarmand]

<p>^Pea, who are you responding to?? </p>

[Pea]

<p>Whoops, my bad. I thought ksarmand was the OP, but he or she isn’t. My apologies.</p>

[ksarmand]

<p>^Oh, it’s no problem at all. Glad that the misunderstanding cleared up. :)</p>