Urm

Applying to College
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<p>Opps, here is the corrected link to the Birgeneau interview
<a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/29_oped.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/29_oped.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Well, no that is the link to the opinion piece. This is to the interview:
<a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/29_birgeneau.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/29_birgeneau.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>"Unfortunatly not, It doesn't make much sense to me either how Blacks and Latinos are considers URM even though they are greatly populated through out this country and have all the same advantages as any white american."</p>

<p>They are URMs because they are underrepresented in univeresity populations compared to their proportion of the overall US population.</p>

<p>And racism means that blacks and many Hispanics do not have the same advantages as do white nonHispanic Americans.</p>