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Tracey Levin <tracey12@swbell.net> wrote:
> 
> Erik, that professor was not terminated,

He never said he was. He said that some legislators considered it.

> but he helped to point to problems caused
> byAffirmative Action

Affirmative Action has been one of the most progressive programs ever under-
taken by our government. Has it grown too big? Probably. Should it be totally
scraped? No way. By removing Affirmative Action, UT is back in a racist
criteria of addmission of its Law School. Perhaps the BIGGEST flaw in the
5th Circuit's ruling is that it let UT keep its "legacy" policy of giving
favoritism to the siblings or other close relatives of UT Law School grads.
Suppose you have two candidates of equal scoring through all addmissions
criteria and you can only choose one of the two. One is the grandson of
a Law School grad, the other is not. Who gets chosen? The grandson of the
Law School grad. The other candidate, if black, has been discriminated 
against since the other "white" candidate has received the benefit of past 
discrimination. When the candidates grandfather went to UT, it was segregated.
Blacks couldn't get into the Law School, yet this past discrimination lives 
through the use of legacies. Very few stop to consider such ramifications.
Affirmative Action is responsible for removing such extra benefits to whites
over persons of other races.

> and liberal university administrators.

Can you make it through a post without over generalizing or stereotyping 
some group wrongly?

> It seems as though you would not mind if the US became occupied by
mexicans from
> Mexico.

I doubt this. But its also very isolationalist to think that the US
cannot benefit from Mexicans or any other Latin-Americans that enter 
the US. Should they do it legally? ofcourse. Should we discourage
employers from hiring illegals? ofcourse. The problem lies in the fact
that many isolationalist, most of whom of conservatives, want to limit
the influx of legal immigration and legal-non-citizen-resident workers
from Mexico. They don't seem to put things together that many of these
persons from Latin America do the medial jobs most Americans wouldn't
dream of doing. Without them, you have to increase pay until you get some
American that is willing to do it, which costs businesses more money,
which drives up prices, two things most conservatives also hate. You
can't have it both ways those, folks. Its either one or the other.


Craig K. Gowens
 Hook'em Horns


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http://www.utexas.edu/athletics/

"I feel a little sleazy about [stalling the game to reach the 4:00 
curfew], but it helps to be prideless in that situation."
   --Augie Garrido, after Texas beat LSU in a curfew shortened game

"Quit calling it 'stalling' and call it 'time mangement' as it is
known in football and basketball, and glorify the coach who can use
it to his team's advantage."
   --"Ballgirl", fellow Texas Baseball nut and frequent poster on
     gobig12.com BBS, commenting on Garrido's "stalling" vs LSU