Posted on 11/08/2006 3:08:12 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Just as California voters did a decade ago, Michigan voters on Tuesday approved a controversial measure to ban affirmative action programs in public employment and university admissions. The Michigan measure, called Proposal 2, was backed by Ward Connerly, the former University of California regent who also backed California's law, Proposition 209, approved in 1996.
Unofficial final election results today said 58.1 percent voted "yes" on Proposal 2, with 41.9 percent against.
University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman said she would investigate an immediate legal challenge to the proposal, which officials said would severely hamper efforts to ensure a diverse student body.
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Amazing. People will vote in huge numbers against institutionalized racism (i.e. race quotas), but send people to Congress who will defend it with their very lives.
There is an important lesson to be learned here. Often voters go for the person, having only a vague idea of what they stand for.
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"How long before a judge throws it out."
Michigan is the third state behind California and Washington. The litigation has been going on for years.
"And what, exactly, is the benefit of a diverse student body"
The evidence is clear. For example, say white accountant, now graduated has to record the purchase of a depreciable asset. The accountant may want to debit an asset account and credit the payment account.
With diversity, that accountant can consider other alternative entries that he would have learned from other cultures.
Is there a pool going on how many days before some scumbag liberal judge tells "the people" to drop dead?
U of M is only good for football...and stupidity.
Proposal 2 was why the dems came out in full force. The results would have been closer had proposal 2 not been on the ballot.....but it was worth it!! I wish prop 3 would've passed
Here in mid-MI, Tim Walberg was elected. He beat the freshman-RINO, Joe Schwarz, in the primary; and, he went on to VICTORY!
Eat dirt, whiner schwarz.
I never thought about it, but there must be a financial reason universities value "affirmative action" above education. Universities are all about money, and since they can now get money from Federal education bureaucrats (who are Marxists), they are now all about Marxism and nothing but Marxism.
So I ask, how does affirmative discrimination lead to more money for universities and their ditzy Stalinist presidents? There has to be an answer.
Because he makes sore/loserman look like little mary sunshines.
He is despicable, and that's one of his good points.
Yesterday, the battle creek enquirer rag ran a story that quoted him as saying that he hoped to draw votes away from sharon-what's-her-name.
Yeah, right. That's why he refused to endorse Walberg. He blamed everyone except himself for his loss.
Jerk. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
This is BIG news! Let us judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. It is so obviously correct, it is amazing that it is an issue at all. We have degraded beyond measure. More likely than not, this measure will be eliminated by activist judges.
To me, "diverse student body" means a good mix of the super-smart, the exceptional, and the above average.
The rest can go to trade schools, community colleges, or flip burgers as their talents dictate.
It is beyond time to return universities to their main role of providing a place for scholars to advance knowledge, while educating the best & brightest to be the next generation of scholars & leaders.
I think that you may be onto something, because U of M Pres. mentioned something about no layoffs at this time yet, or something to that effect.
"Be kind to your C students, because some of them will become multimillionaires and provide endowments for your school."
(Making use of the Socratic method of answering a question with a question, to guide the querent to an answer to his own, original question...):
Shouldn't the university ensure enough students to justify keeping various ethnic & gender "studies" professors employed?
Are we sure we want those professors unemployed, and freely wandering the streets, with time on their hands?
INteresting point. Midland County voted for Granholm. Midland County, MI is usually 60% or more Republican. Same for Stabenow.
It was the Republicans that turned against it's own party. Four of the five ballot proposals that I wanted went the way I wanted. The only one that didn't was the dove hunting. Oh well. The teachers didn't get their big pay increase and we sent affirmative action to the history books.
Michigan's universities are already vowing to find ways around it, even ignoring it if they have to.
(Making use of the Socratic method of answering a question with a question, to guide the querent to an answer to his own, original question...):
Shouldn't the university ensure enough students to justify keeping various ethnic & gender "studies" professors employed?
NO! :)
Are we sure we want those professors unemployed, and freely wandering the streets, with time on their hands?
YES!
OK, I do have something against useless educrats, and these would certainly qualify!
Can we perhaps find a better solution for them, than allowing them to aimlessly perambulate among decent, productive citizens, perhaps even causing unseemly disturbances?
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