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| Sun, 02-15-2004 - 10:53pm |
New scholarship created for whites only
Sunday, February 15, 2004 Posted: 6:46 PM EST
BRISTOL, Rhode Island (AP) -- A student group at Roger Williams University is
offering a new scholarship for which only white students are eligible, a move they
say is designed to protest affirmative action.
The application for the $250 award requires an essay on "why you are proud of your
white heritage" and a recent picture to "confirm whiteness."
"Evidence of bleaching will disqualify applicants," says the application, issued by
the university's College Republicans.
Jason Mattera, 20, who is president of the College Republicans, said the group is
parodying minority scholarships.
"We think that if you want to treat someone according to character and how well they
achieve academically, then skin color shouldn't really be an option," he said. "Many
people think that coming from a white background you're automatically privileged,
you're automatically rich and your parents pay full tuition. That's just not the
case."
The stunt has angered some at the university, but the administration is staying out
of the fray. The school's provost said it is a student group's initiative and is not
endorsed by Roger Williams.
Mattera, who is of Puerto Rican descent, is himself a recipient of a $5,000
scholarship open only to a minority group.
"No matter what my ethnicity is, I'm making a statement that scholarships should be
given out based on merit and need," Mattera told the Providence Journal.
His group took out a full-page ad in last week's issue of the university's student
newspaper to tout the scholarship, which was for $50 until two donors came forward
to add $100 each during the weekend, Mattera said.
It's not the first brush with controversy for the group. The school temporarily
froze the Republicans' money in the fall during a fight over a series of articles
published in its monthly newsletter. One article alleged that a gay-rights group
indoctrinates students into homosexual sex.
ALL I CAN SAY IS IT'S ABOUT TIME!!

scholarship open only to a minority group.
"No matter what my ethnicity is, I'm making a statement that scholarships should be
given out based on merit and need," Mattera told the Providence Journal. <<
Uh huh.
>"Jason Mattera, 20, who is president of the College Republicans"<
>"Mattera, who is of Puerto Rican descent, is himself a recipient of a $5,000 scholarship open only to a minority group."<
Put your money where your mouth is & return the $5,000 scholarship money!
>"The group took out a full-page ad in last week's issue of the university's student newspaper to advertise the scholarship, which was for $50 until two donors came forward to add $100 each during the weekend, Mattera said. The ad also publicized the visit on Wednesday of Reginald Jones, a critic of affirmative action who calls himself ''the nuclear reaction to Jesse Jackson.''
He was invited, the Republicans said, in observance of Black History Month. A poster announcing his visit says that ''Black History Month is a ploy to spread socialism.''
The topic of Jones' lecture Wednesday evening is ''How the civil-rights movement destroyed the black community.'' "<
Quotes from.........
http://www.eastbayri.com/story/279828805932159.php
Why are news sites & papers giving the 'story' publicity?
Reginald Jones. http://www.yaf.org/speakers/reginald_jones.html
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