Whites only scholarship

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Whites only scholarship
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Sun, 02-15-2004 - 10:53pm
From CNN's website:

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!!

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Registered: 05-06-2003
Mon, 02-16-2004 - 1:52am
>>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. <<

Uh huh.

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Registered: 03-18-2000
Mon, 02-16-2004 - 7:20am

>"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

cl-Libraone





 


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 02-17-2004 - 10:40am
Do you see something wrong with that?