Feds to sue SIU over scholarship program.

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-siu11.html

 

 

 

I LUVVVVVVVVVV the Bush Administration.

 

 

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

I spelled Scholarship wrong. Damn typos!

 

 

Edit: Thanks to whichever mod fixed that.

Edited November 14, 2005 by NUKE_CLEVELAND

[mr_genius]

A public institution should not be allowed to discriminate based on race or sex.

 

"Several white women who have "overcome hardship" have been awarded the Graduate Dean's Fellowship, even though women outnumber men at the university. White men need not apply, however. "I'll be upfront with you -- no white male will get this award,'' McNeil said."

 

 

Wow, what an ass this McNeil guy is. He may be a privileged white male, but not all white males were born with a silver spoon in their mouths; as I am guessing this idiot was.

Edited November 14, 2005 by mr_genius

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

A public institution should not be allowed to discriminate based on race or sex. 

 

"Several white women who have "overcome hardship" have been awarded the Graduate Dean's Fellowship, even though women outnumber men at the university. White men need not apply, however. "I'll be upfront with you -- no white male will get this award,'' McNeil said."

Wow, what an ass this McNeil guy is.  He may be a previlaged white male, but not all white males were born with a silver spoonin their mouths; as I am guessing this idiot did.

 

 

I love how the most ardent of civil rights advocates are the biggest proponents of Affirmative Action which, by the way, is the most blatantly racist and sexist of anything going these days. The hypocrasy of it all just blows my mind.

[Soxy]

Dude, forget that. Give the scholarships to people who really need it: the spelling challenged.

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

Dude, forget that. Give the scholarships to people who really need it: the spelling challenged.

 

 

More like the typing challenged.

 

 

:finger

[Soxy]

More like the typing challenged.

:finger

Oh hush. You love me.

[Brian]

You'd think Bush could find bigger things on his agenda between vacations.

 

I think he should investigate the "Miss Black America Pageant" for not ever having a white woman win.

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

You'd think Bush could find bigger things on his agenda between vacations.

 

I think he should investigate the "Miss Black America Pageant" for not ever having a white woman win.

 

 

 

You jest but if there was a Ms White America pageant the liberals and Jesse Jackson would be all up in arms over it.

[YASNY]

You jest but if there was a Ms White America pageant the liberals and Jesse Jackson would be all up in arms over it.

 

Or White Entertainment Television network

 

Or a National Association for the Advancement of White People.

[Soxy]

Or White Entertainment Television network

I believe that's called PBS.

[JUGGERNAUT]

Mark Cordes, a professor of law at Northern Illinois University:

"The court said you can't categorize people purely by race, and everybody has the right to compete for seats in admissions The same thing would apply to a fellowship. At that point, you aren't treating people as individuals."

 

And in 25 yrs when caucasians are a minority it will still be true.

[Steff]

I believe that's called PBS.

 

 

Speaking of PBS...

 

PBS wants to be top banana

Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY

Mon Nov 14, 6:44 AM ET

 

 

 

Coming off a rocky period in which its budget was threatened on Capitol Hill, one of its shows came under fire for featuring lesbians, and the former chairman of its main funding source, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, resigned after criticism of his leadership, the Public Broadcasting System is now focusing on one of its most important franchises - kids.

 

 

"We've always been a leader in this area, and now we're putting more of our own resources here again so that we can continue to be a leader," says Lesli Rotenberg, who is heading up the new five-year initiative called PBS Kids Next Generation Media. (Related story: New 'neighbors' are coming to PBS)

 

 

She says the plan isn't a response to all those troubles but more a reflection of new "prioritizing."

 

 

The overall goal isn't so much different from what the goals have always been: "a well-balanced diet of learning," says Rotenberg. "The curriculum will include math, science, literacy, music. Every program will have a big dose of social and emotional learning, too, teaching values about respect. The kinds of things we know that parents today are demanding."

 

 

Here are three shows slated for next year:

 

 

•It's a Big, Big World. Jan. 2 on PBS Kids. A "special sneak" will air on Nov. 25 on PBS.

 

 

The preschool series, from Mitchell Kriegman (Bear in the Big Blue House, Clarissa Explains It All), is about group of animal characters in a lush rain forest. The main one, Snook, is a sloth.

 

 

"He's an adult, but he's got a great laid-back, Zen style," says Kriegman. "He's not stuffy, not goofy, not infantile. He's kind of the cool guy."

 

 

Snook lives in The World Tree, home to many animals and the show's metaphor for the world as a whole. It is filled with different creatures from Burdette, a bird who knows it all, to Bob the anteater, who is constantly overwhelmed. The setting will allow for an exploration of science and geography.

 

 

The series is being produced with a new look devised by Kriegman called "Shadowmation," blending puppetry, animatronics and computer-generated animation.

 

 

•FETCH! June on PBS Kids, part of the Go! programming block.

 

 

The title stands for Fabulously Entertaining TV with a Canine Host. Described as part game show, part reality series, part spoof, its star is a dog named Ruff Ruffman, who develops, produces and hosts his own brand of reality television. He hires six kids who tackle wacky challenges.

 

 

•Curious George. Fall 2006 on PBS Kids.

 

 

The show, narrated by William H. Macy, will be part of the block with It's a Big, Big World. The little monkey's curious nature will introduce preschoolers to concepts in math, science and engineering. "Some of the stories will be from the old books, some will be new," says Linda Simensky, senior director of children's programming.

 

 

She has seen the first few episodes. "In one, the man in the yellow hat explains what zero is. He tells George that 'alone, it means nothing.' So George, who is bringing a note to the doughnut shop to get doughnuts, keeps adding zeroes, and he winds up ordering 100 boxes."

[FlaSoxxJim]

I fear I will be alone in quiet outrage that that show with the Zen sloth is going toi put an anteater - a non-arboreal animal - in a tree.

 

Otherwise that show sounds really good and I hope my kindergartener doesn't feel he's too old for it.

 

That show with the dog doing the kids' reality show on the other hand sounds pretty stupid.

[Controlled Chaos]

You'd think Bush could find bigger things on his agenda between vacations.

 

 

You would think, but instead he's once again trying to just help his "friends" aka white people. It's all about him and his rich friends. Kanye West had him pinned right.

 

Oh wait....it seems there are some poor white people in this country. I bet they could benefit from this scholarship. In fact, there are way more poor white people in this country than poor black people. approx 24,000 to approx 9,000. So excluding whites is excluding a pretty dam good chunk of poverty stricken people. Color of skin should have nothing to do with this....If it's a scholarship to help the poor, then make it about the poor not about race.

[FlaSoxxJim]

You would think, but instead he's once again trying to just help his "friends" aka white people.  It's all about him and his rich friends.  Kanye West had him pinned right.

 

Oh wait....it seems there are some poor white people in this country.  I bet they could benefit from this scholarship.  In fact, there are way more poor white people in this country than poor black people. approx 24,000 to approx 9,000.  So excluding whites is excluding a pretty dam good chunk of poverty stricken people.  Color of skin should have nothing to do with this....If it's a scholarship to help the poor, then make it about the poor not about race.

See, Bush's policies must be working because they seem to have cut poverty across the board by THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE!

Edited November 14, 2005 by FlaSoxxJim

[Controlled Chaos]

See, Bush's policies must be working because they seem to have cut poverty across the board by THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE! 

 

DOH!! Dam, I had it right the first time I typed it, but then I retyped it to include the link and blew it!!! Thanks for catching...everyone add a few more zeros there.

 

For what it's worth on Bush...I'm not even looking at him or the politics behind this. I'm just looking at right and wrong and it certainly seems race shouldn't be a factor with this scholarship.