<p>"Voters in Arizona on Tuesday approved Proposition 107 banning the consideration of race, ethnicity or gender by units of state government, including public colleges and universities...Arizona joins California, Michigan, Nebraska and Washington State in imposing such bans." What circumstances get this issue on the ballot?</p>
<p>San</a> Fernando Valley Sun - Arizona Bans Affirmative Action</p>
<p>I am not sure how I feel about this, even though I know Arizona is predominantly a minority state. I had the opportunity to attend UCSD on a transfer term, and it was shocking that the school had started to admit more Mexicans. Last year, they finally decided to put up a Mexican mural that the Hispanic Student Union had fought long and hard for…</p>
<p>I am not an advocate of affirmative action, but I was surprised by the lack of diversity and as an outsider looking in (I’m African American), I observed a huge divide between the first-generation Hispanic students and the Asians.</p>
<p>I would like to believe that my 2300 SAT score, coming from a top 5 national high school (High Technology), gap year, and ECs got me into the door, but now I am beginning to wonder how much of a factor my race was.</p>
<p>Just saying.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t like the current AA system and the way race and gender are considered as part of the holistic process–admissions officers are imperfect beings with implicit biases and stereotypes, and seeing the races and genders is bound to affect their views of applicants in ways besides the good and fair ones. All applications should be reviewed with gender and race stripped out-- completely blind-- and then rebalancing for gender and race should be done afterwards, if needed, but with the exact rebalancing percentages calculated and published. That way the process is transparent.</p>
<p>But I don’t think AA should be abolished, just made transparent. And Arizona definitely didn’t follow the same reasoning as me for passing this law…</p>
<p>Affirmative action in public institutions of any kind is an abomination and should be abolished. Since they are taxpayer funded, they should be obligated to give all students equal access to its services. Same goes for any government-run institution. As for private schools, I don’t care if the professors wear white hoods on their heads. There is no excuse for a public school to discriminate against any race for any reason, and I applaud the Arizona voters.</p>
<p>Even though there is some validity in opposing AA…there is NO validity in supporting this ridiculous piece of legislation since it was passed on racist principles and not logic.</p>