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Thursday, August 25, 2011

A New Opportunity to Encourage Students to Lie

A private college in the Chicago area is going to be offering scholarships:

Elmhurst College put a question on its admissions application that won’t appear on any other school's application.
"Would you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) community?”
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A “yes” answer could put students in line to qualify for a scholarship worth one-third of tuition at the private, liberal arts school affiliated with the United Church of Christ, said Rold.
Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Elmhurst-College-to-Ask-About-Sexual-Orientation--128378348.html?#ixzz1W3X8lh2D
The rationale for offering this scholarship is to increase the "diversity" of the college.  Perhaps the could promote diversity on the faculty with an affirmative action program for conservatives?
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3 comments:

  1. UnknownAugust 25, 2011 at 10:14 AM

    But Conservatives are part of the evil and privileged majority like White men that need to be punished for their past and present evil deeds (of course as a White man I'm joking)!

    When I first tried to get scholarships over 20 years ago I was amazed at how many of them discriminated against me. Now I can understand academic based discrimination (i.e. rewarding good grades in high school) or favoring a specific major, but there were so many that said I had to be a member of a certain race (non-white), be the right gender (the few that are for female only), be a member of the right religion, be a senior undergrad before age 26, etc. As a white male I found that a lot of them excluded that category.

    Of course legally I suppose they can do whatever they want.

    Maybe child molester scholarships are next...

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  2. Windy WilsonAugust 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM

    Perhaps every applicant should check that box, as it would be hard to exclude anyone as the LGBT proponents insist there is a spectrum to LGB, so everyone has it a little, so everyone is included. Not what the school intended, no doubt.

    As for diversity, they are only going after a sort of M&M diversity; a rainbow of colors outside, same pernicious statist flavor inside. A conservative at that schoool would be like a Skittle among the M&M's.

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  3. PaulAugust 28, 2011 at 8:20 PM

    I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body, so I guess I qualify, right?

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