Student Group Offers Whites-Only Award

[Seraphim]

BRISTOL, R.I. - 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 homo****** ***.

[Seoulstriker]

tell me what's wrong with that? that's essentially what affirmative action does...

[MetalBoy]

rofl Reminds me of our Affirmative Action bake sale put on by the Bruin Republicans here at UCLA.

Expect "open minded" minorites in Rhode Island to take a **** on this. :hug:"RACIST WHITIES!"

[Seoulstriker]

liberals aren't the only people who put on bake sales as protests. :D

(remember when liberal teachers held a bake sale and then gave the money to the treasury of the US?)

[fred_engles]

All these on-campus anti-affirmative-action bake sales and the like are getting really old - especially since it's usually only a half-dozen or so people trying to provoke anger (which they consistently do, and then you have to put up with shouted protests by the local campus marxists or whatever).

Still, anyone who needs to stoop to that level (I'm talking about the types mentioned in the article) to make a political point is a ****tard.

[Jack Mehoff]

What if you are half white?

[California Joe]

Or a martian insect overlord?

[Haiw]

What if you are half white?
Depends what the other half is...

[Va_Dinger]

Quoted from 60 minutes:

This is what Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back:
"I like big cars, big boats, big motorcycles, big houses and big
campfires. I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

I think that if you feel homo******ity is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.

I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund,
Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America.

Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens. Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are
different, weird, or tick me off. When 70% of the people who get
arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law of Probability.

I believe that if you are selling me a milk shake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!

My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the
countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.

I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry self if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations.

I believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building. Ask your buddy who invented the Internet to help you.

"I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please
don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me french fries!

I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be"African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe.

I am proud to be from America and nowhere else. And if you don't like my point of view, tough. DON'T PASS IT ON!!"

[Jack Mehoff]

What if you are half white?
Depends what the other half is...

half pimp

[11F5S]

What if you are half white?

In your case it wouldn't matter because you couldn't write a college level essay to save your life.

[Jack Mehoff]

Good to see your old self back 11F5S. I thought you are completely forget about me. You get me all worry and **** http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/avatar.php?userid=3727&dateline=1064192275