Affirmative Action Bake Sale idiocy reaches Purdue University

[marmar]

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from the American Family Association's OneNewsNow, which sees this as raising "awareness.":




Bake sale raises awareness at Purdue
Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 3/2/2009 8:00:00 AM


Conservative students at Purdue University in Indiana recently held their first-ever affirmative action bake sale.

Students who belong to the Conservative Coalition for American Values chapter at Purdue held the event last Wednesday to protest the unfair recruiting efforts of colleges and universities who typically favor minority students over Caucasian students. Different people groups were charged different prices at the bake sale in accordance with affirmative action guidelines.

OneNewsNow interviewed Coalition spokesperson Naomi Whittaker. "Asian-Pacific Islanders are charged the most because, although they are a minority they are punished in a sense for being successful minorities," she explains. "So...they will pay the most at $1.50 per baked good."

Whittaker says Caucasians will be charged $1 and African-Americans 50 cents, with Native Americans getting baked goods for free. But she adds that if the students and faculty want to be judged based on character instead of skin color, then they will all be charged the same fee for baked goods.

"This reflects the quotas used in the public school system," she notes.

Whittaker says the event went off without a hitch, and some students found the pricing comical while others asked questions and argued. Overall, Whittaker believes they were able to peacefully protest and get their point across.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=431190 (if Rickrolled, this prize-winning piece is at www.afa.net in the onenewsnow area)

[anonymous171]

1. Does Purdue do Legacy Admissions?

[Kolesar]

2. I remember when they burned a cross on the lawn of the black fraternity at Purdue

It was about 30 years ago.

[TlalocW]

3. I'd go over to the Native American Student Association

And get them all to go to the bake sale and clean them out in 5 minutes then take everything back to the student center and have a party.

TlalocW

[Skidmore]

4. Any Purdue alums here who hare a problem with this and might want

to withhold further contrubutions to this institution to make a point?

[zipplewrath]

8. Never given 'em a dime

Due to several spats over the years, I was repeatedly finding myself having to explain that I'd never give them another dime. The last straw was when they tried to withhold my degree over $5.10. Told 'em they had just explained what their degree was worth. I've never given them another dime.

It was strange back then, it was at the beginning of the Reagan Revolution and the campus was thick with "Young Republicans". Strangely, in an odd bit of irony, the two largest on campus student organizations were the Young Republicans and the Purdue Gay Alliance. I used to wonder what the degree of overlap was.

[YOY]

5. That Youtube link in the story it set to one sweet bit of cockrock.

n.t.

[DS1]

6. College republicans need a massive kick to the groin,

and then thrown out of a plane over Iraq. Some without parachutes, let them fight over them on the way down.

[ck4829]

7. Someone should respond with a "Republican Department of Just Us" bake sale.

Are you a liberal? NO COOKIE FOR YOU!
Are you a moderate? NO COOKIE FOR YOU!
Are you a partisan right wing Republican? FREE COOKIE FOR YOU!

[noiretextatique]

9. i wonder if they are as concerned about legacy admissions?

some of them are probably legacy admissions, so they probably aren't as outraged about themselves.