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- From: stewart@geophysics.harvard.edu (Cheryl Stewart)
- Newsgroups: soc.women
- Subject: Re: Racist/Sexist Role Models
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.202514.19702@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:25:14 GMT
- Article-I.D.: das.1992Nov23.202514.19702
- References: <1992Nov21.045615.19575@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
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- In article 19575@samba.oit.unc.edu, Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:
- >Many colleges provide special preferred academic treatment for Blaks.
-
- Actually, they've been providing special treatment for Whites for a long
- time. This is evidenced by the fact that one college officer obviously
- can't even spell the color "Black" and doesn't know enough to call Americans
- of African descent by their proper name, i.e. African Americans.
-
-
- >These include lower admission standards (in effect, adding points to SAT
- >scores, etc.),
-
- Actually, the same is done for men, since the raw SATs are higher
- for women than for men. Men systematically have their scores raised
- a couple points. Because women tend to get better grades in High
- School and better letters of recommendations, in order to keep the
- male-to-female ratio 1:1, lower admission standards are applied to
- men. Furthermore, IQs of women in graduate schools are consistently
- higher than their male counterparts, indicating that applying lower
- academic standards to men continues on to graduate school admissions.
-
-
- > tutoring, mentoring, organization memberships, which are
- >denied Caucasian students.
-
- Actually, at Cornell, where I went to school, there were a number of
- organizations which were extremely race, gender and even religion
- restricted which provided tutoring, mentoring and files full of
- old exams and problem sets for most courses. These were known as
- FRATERNATIES. Since they are private organizations, they are actually
- extremely restrictive. The same goes for secret societies, such as
- George Bush's at Yale. Also recall that there was a quota here at
- Harvard for Jewish students until the 60's, which is why Boston
- University exists (it was started because top students who happened
- to be Jewish would have a harder time gaining admission to Harvard
- because of these quotas) and for a long time there were no Jewish
- faculty here. In essence, with more strict admissions policies
- being applied to women and Jews at Harvard/Radcliffe, logic dictates
- that the admissions standards have always been lower for WASP men
- here. Men like yourself. Of course, even with all of that extra
- help, some WASP men still wind up at state schools. Men like yourself.
-
-
- > Perhaps you didn't realize such advantages
- >made available to you were race restricted.
-
- Perhaps you didn't realize such advantages
- made available to you were race restricted.
-
-
- Cheryl
-