What everyone is talking about is putting robins nests and eagles nests in the same tree and things will be better. Dumb!!!
I'm against race based awards in entry level college admissions. I'm also against legacy awards and athletic awards. Legacy awards need to be abolished along with race, and athletics needs to be a separate non-academic program since they function as a money generating farm team for professional sports.
I do think that there are programs where diversity in thought and culture are important. For example, in my field of engineering - and I would expect science and math are similiar - your ethnicity or gender makes no difference in your ability to demonstrate your skill. There's really not much room for diversity of thought at the undergrad level.
In other disciplines, International Relations and Political Science, cultural/ethnic diversity may be valuable, and political ideology should be diverse.
Makes for a complex set of factors for selecting faculty and students - and we've constrained it severely in a legalistic context which awards points on skin color - in many cases black and white. Generations that follow will be less inclined to identify themselves this way while Asian (a diverse group already) and Latin Americans will be pushing for awards based on brown and yellow as well as black and white.
On another theme in this thread ... Rush Shmush. Love his show, but "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
You are correct, but don't expect too many here in this forum to agree with you. Most so called "conservatives" here on FreeRepublic have heard that liberal mantra so many times that they have come to believe it .