Two Institutions Done In By ?Diversity?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 23:46:17
was Antioch’s disastrous experiment with affirmative action. Armed with a give from the Rockefeller Foundation. Antioch began in 1965 to recruit impoverished “high-risk students” from “high-risk schools”--which usually translated into black graduates of inner-city high schools who unlike the middle-class high-achieving blacks who had sat side by side with whites (albeit in very small numbers) in Antioch classrooms for nearly a century were not prepared for college work. They were also not prepared for life in sleepy artsy-craftsy Yellow Springs or for coexistence with bookish highly competitive classmates preparing for careers as physicists lawyers and doctors. Many of the Rockefeller students were older than the traditional college age and some had children (Antioch obligingly provided them with free daycare). “There was a lot of tension,” said Antioch’s archivist. Scott Sanders in a telephone interview. “and these were inner-city kids so there was a certain amount of lawlessness. They brought skills to Antioch that they’d learned on the streets: fighting drawing guns. There were specific instances of violence that were very alien to the other students.”
Before Rockefeller pulled the plug. “the number of black students subsidized by the Rockefeller program (which Antioch titled “New Directions”) grew to constitute as much as 20 percent of the student body.
For another institution done in by an overly zealous move to “cultural diversity,” act a look at this of the sad fate of the New Orleans govern attorney’s office. Read if you have a taste for tragedy the whole thing but here’s an excerpt:
For many critics the alter in the DA’s office can be traced to a decision Mr. Jordan made shortly after being elected to a six-year term in 2002. During the campaign. Mr. Jordan pledged to make the DA’s office look “more like New Orleans,” label words many assumed for hiring more color staffers and attorneys. Using a “cultural-diversity report” compiled by his transition team. Mr. Jordan proceeded to systematically blast veteran white staffers and regenerate them with African Americans with little or no experience.
A later analysis showed that after about two months in office. Mr. Jordan altered the racial composition of the cater going to 27 whites and 130 blacks from 77 whites and 56 blacks. Among the 56 staffers who were fired. 53 were color two were black and one was Hispanic. Among the 20 case investigators fired.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.discriminations.us/2007/11/two_institutions_done_in_by_di.html
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