J.T
09-25-2011, 07:05 PM
The UC Berkeley College Republicans are planning a bake sale — where the price of a cupcake depend on your race.
The “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” is meant to satirize an affirmative action-like bill in California that would let the university system consider ethnicity in student admissions.
“Just like the CA Senate Bills 185 and 387 the phone bank supports, we will be considering race, gender, ethnicity, national/geographic origin and other relevant factors to ensure the equitable distribution of baked goods to our diverse student body,” the College Republicans wrote in a Facebook announcement (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150808701895478&set=a.192543325477.251202.657130477&type=1&theater) publicizing the event, set for Tuesday. “Hope to see you all there! If you don’t come, you’re a racist!
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Shawn Lewis, president of the Berkeley College Republicans, said he was surprised by the number of critics and their harshness his organization has received. He said agrees that race-based pricing is discriminatory.
“But it’s discriminatory in the same way that considering race in university admissions is discriminatory,” he said.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/is-the-berkeley-college-republicans-diversity-bake-sale-racist/
Now I don't understand the reference to 387 (http://e-lobbyist.com/gaits/text/235663), but here's what I found on 185 (http://ca.opengovernment.org/system/bill_documents/001/221/054/original/sb_185_bill_20110503_amended_sen_v97.html?13104983 01):
This bill would authorize the University of California and <strike> require </strike> the California State University to consider race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin, along with other relevant factors, in undergraduate and graduate admissions, to the maximum extent permitted by the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 31 of Article I of the California Constitution, and relevant case law.
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(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the University of California and the California State University, pursuant to Section 66201.5, seek to enroll a student body that meets high academic standards and reflects the cultural, racial, geographic, economic, and social diversity of California. (c) (1) Pursuant to subdivision (b), the University of California may, and the California State University <strike> shall </strike> may , consider race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, geographic origin, and household income, along with other relevant factors, in undergraduate and graduate admissions...
It is the intent of the Legislature that this provision be implemented
to the maximum extent permitted by the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) 539 U.S. 306, in which the court stated that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution does not prohibit a university's "narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body,"
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The “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” is meant to satirize an affirmative action-like bill in California that would let the university system consider ethnicity in student admissions.
“Just like the CA Senate Bills 185 and 387 the phone bank supports, we will be considering race, gender, ethnicity, national/geographic origin and other relevant factors to ensure the equitable distribution of baked goods to our diverse student body,” the College Republicans wrote in a Facebook announcement (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150808701895478&set=a.192543325477.251202.657130477&type=1&theater) publicizing the event, set for Tuesday. “Hope to see you all there! If you don’t come, you’re a racist!
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Shawn Lewis, president of the Berkeley College Republicans, said he was surprised by the number of critics and their harshness his organization has received. He said agrees that race-based pricing is discriminatory.
“But it’s discriminatory in the same way that considering race in university admissions is discriminatory,” he said.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/is-the-berkeley-college-republicans-diversity-bake-sale-racist/
Now I don't understand the reference to 387 (http://e-lobbyist.com/gaits/text/235663), but here's what I found on 185 (http://ca.opengovernment.org/system/bill_documents/001/221/054/original/sb_185_bill_20110503_amended_sen_v97.html?13104983 01):
This bill would authorize the University of California and <strike> require </strike> the California State University to consider race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin, along with other relevant factors, in undergraduate and graduate admissions, to the maximum extent permitted by the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 31 of Article I of the California Constitution, and relevant case law.
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(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the University of California and the California State University, pursuant to Section 66201.5, seek to enroll a student body that meets high academic standards and reflects the cultural, racial, geographic, economic, and social diversity of California. (c) (1) Pursuant to subdivision (b), the University of California may, and the California State University <strike> shall </strike> may , consider race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, geographic origin, and household income, along with other relevant factors, in undergraduate and graduate admissions...
It is the intent of the Legislature that this provision be implemented
to the maximum extent permitted by the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) 539 U.S. 306, in which the court stated that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution does not prohibit a university's "narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body,"
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