Affirmative Action Bake Sale at Indiana University

The Hoosier Review ^ | 11-4-03 | Zach Wendling

[Rush Reagan]

Yum! Cookies Well, it's finally come to IU. The Committee for Freedom will be holding an Affirmative Action Bakesale tomorrow, Wednesday, November 4th in Dunn Meadow from 12:30 pm until 2:00 pm. According to the press release, "Cookies will be sold at different prices based on race and gender. White males will pay $1 per cookie, white females will pay 75 cents, Hispanics will pay 50 cents, and cookies will cost 25 cents for blacks."

Stephan Jerabek, President of The Committee for Freedom, said, "Through this bake sale, we hope to highlight the absurdity of preferences based on race, ethnicity, or gender." Bakesale patrons will also be given the chance to sign a petition calling on IU to change university policy to prohibit the collection of racial data.

As a side note here guys there is probably going to be a huge backlash on campus from this. Any support you Freepers can give us in terms of letters to the editor or anything else will be greatly appreciated. I will post a message after the bakesale to tell you guys how to respond if you want.

[LibertarianInExile]

Ping to 60. I also agree with the videotaping idea. Make sure everyone there brings a camera and tapes and as a last resort, audiotape recorders. And make sure that you have a copy of something legit to hand out discussing the Republican position on affirmative action (Ward Connerly might have some helpful stuff here). And at the 'protest' table, make sure they have a camera too (second angles are fun).

I'd strongly recommend that whoever's at the 'protest' table wear a tie-dye and look grungy. Maybe have a couple of signature sheets and petitions for people that have 'serious objections' to CR to sign, so that you get a list of all the people that attended in the event there's any real fracas beyond the shouting.

[FierceDraka]

... God replied wisely, "Wait until you see the idiots I'm putting around them in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, & Illinois."

LOL LOL! I love my home, too. ;-)

[Dan Evans]

The new modern form of "stealth affirmative action" is now based on having a deprived childhood. So they should like give a nickel off on the bagels if the customer came from a household that didn't have cable.