Public university looks to lower number of white students on campus...

[brighamw]

University calls the amount of white people on campus a ‘failure,’ asks for ideas on how to have fewer...

A school-wide questionnaire at Western Washington University (WWU) asked the community “How do we make sure that in future years ‘we are not as white as we are today?’”

The question, released through the communications and marketing department's daily newsletter Western Today, comes on the heels of admonishments given in multiple convocation addresses by WWU President Bruce Shepard for the university’s “failure” to be less white.

“Every year, from this stage and at this time, you have heard me say that, if in decades ahead, we are as white as we are today, we will have failed as university,” Shepard said in the 2012 speech.

And in a recent blog post on WWU’s website, Shepard echoes these sentiments, saying those who do not agree “have not thought through the implications of what is ahead for us or, more perniciously, assume we can continue unchanged.”

“In the decades ahead, should we be as white as we are today, we will be relentlessly driven toward mediocrity; or, become a sad shadow of our current self,” he wrote.

The six question survey, inspired by Shepard, is meant to combat a recent decline in Washington high school graduation numbers, the pool from which the university draws 90 percent of its students.

The university has already replaced standard performance reviews with sensitivity training and hosts workshops to better serve undocumented students. WWU also provides literature on how to better “recruit and retain faculty and staff of color.”

Campus Reform talked briefly to a spokesperson from the university who was hesitant to offer clarification to the controversial questionnaire.

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5549

Da fuq?

[leafs43]

Should have all public funding cut.

Public money cannot support discrimination based on skin color.

[repsDTGdaily]

yeah i saw this. good luck to them keeping high academic standards and obtaining funding in their future. why is race even part of the application process? there should be 0 reference to race, and everything should be based upon their academics.

[magog704]

dont be located in western washington

[metroins]

We should stop focusing on color/race and focus on socio-economic or really just raw number of students with high grades.

This is racist.

yeah i saw this. good luck to them keeping high academic standards and obtaining funding in their future. why is race even part of the application process? there should be 0 reference to race, and everything should be based upon their academics.

This.

[uvulabrah]

what's with white people who self hate and want to self destruct. Can they truly be that guilty over something they never participated in?

[leafs43]

what's with white people who self hate and want to self destruct. Can they truly be that guilty over something they never participated in?

White libs are just insane. Period.

[Lendogg]

So stupid that their is EEO in the workplace, but yet education systems can deny whoever they want

[dweeegs]

Dang what the hell, at least try to frame it less racist by saying 'culturally diverse' or something

[VTheKing]

Interestingly, the Prez elaborated on his statement a while ago. Probably easier to read in the URL:

http://www.wwu.edu/president/blog/posts/24.shtml


Let's be fair here though, if the demographics were tilted the other way he wouldn't have come out and said "we need to be whiter". Either way, it disturbs me how "racially" charge campus discourse is, going both ways.

[cannadian]

Interestingly, the Prez elaborated on his statement a while ago. Probably easier to read in the URL:

http://www.wwu.edu/president/blog/posts/24.shtml


Let's be fair here though, if the demographics were tilted the other way he wouldn't have come out and said "we need to be whiter". Either way, it disturbs me how "racially" charge campus discourse is, going both ways.

This. Not only racially but sexually as well. You're a ubc brah right? Brb in all the washrooms at the sub and Sauder building there are posters telling you not to rape women and that having sex with drunk women is rape etc.

Wtf is wrong with our society. Normal folk need to take a stand for fuk sakes.

Edit: imagine the outrage if males lobbied to get posters put up in female washrooms that said "it's not rape because you regret it the next day"

People would be fired, heads would spin, there would be a feminist jihad. But it's ok to subject guys to this kind of condescending BS?

[tsbalr120]

retarded concept is retarded.

brb your skin colour is X, therefore you can only be Y political affiliation, else you are a retard

okay.

You don't find it odd these guys willfully want their children and grandchildren to have a harder time enrolling in a university?

[VTheKing]

This. Not only racially but sexually as well. You're a ubc brah right? Brb in all the washrooms at the sub and Sauder building there are posters telling you not to rape women and that having sex with drunk women is rape etc.

Wtf is wrong with our society. Normal folk need to take a stand for fuk sakes.

Edit: imagine the outrage if males lobbied to get posters put up in female washrooms that said "it's not rape because you regret it the next day"

People would be fired, heads would spin, there would be a feminist jihad. But it's ok to subject guys to this kind of condescending BS?

There was a "rape chant" incident coupled with some pervert going around pulling women into bushes at night, so the knee jerked here real hard. Hehe.

[IDrinkBloodLOL]

When are you people going to realize that I am right?

Seriously, that Ron Paul "I could have saved you" meme should have my face on it.

[JoshSP1985]

yeah i saw this. good luck to them keeping high academic standards and obtaining funding in their future. why is race even part of the application process? there should be 0 reference to race, and everything should be based upon their academics.

This, probably shouldn't even know the applicants name until approved or denied.

[tsbalr120]

sure, but affirmative action isn't a liberal policy. it's a retarded policy

we don't have it here in canada re: universities (i think), and we're far more liberal than you guys

if university admissions became solely merit based, they'd be 90% asian and indian, like what happened to the UC system in California. then people would bitch about it being too hard for everyone else to get in

True.

AA is a hugely racist legislation and should have been unconstitutional from the start.

I think you're right about people bitching about asains and indians dominating the top schools, but it'll be fair.

[repsDTGdaily]

sure, but affirmative action isn't a liberal policy. it's a retarded policy

we don't have it here in canada re: universities (i think), and we're far more liberal than you guys

if university admissions became solely merit based, they'd be 90% asian and indian, like what happened to the UC system in California. then people would bitch about it being too hard for everyone else to get in

when we say lib logic...we mean US lib logic...if your lib logic falls in line with it...then fine, but we don't particularly care.

[817TexasBrah]

My cousins go to this school

[SigmundFreud]

Dang, atheists are racist. Probably because they have no sense of right and wrong.

[DavidBenGurion]

When are you people going to realize that I am right?

Seriously, that Ron Paul "I could have saved you" meme should have my face on it.

Yup.

Homogeneous countries like Iceland, Finland, Korea and Japan don't have to deal with this bullshyt.

[seven11]

we can make a petiton to remove AA or make it unlawful to ask for race for public school applications.

http://www.petitions.whitehouse.gov/.../popular/0/2/0

[repsDTGdaily]

we can make a petiton to remove AA or make it unlawful to ask for race for public school applications.

http://www.petitions.whitehouse.gov/.../popular/0/2/0

So this is where the white house gets their asswiping paper

[John L]

I'm going to drop out tomorrow so my uni's white demographic will lower slightly

[seven11]

So this is where the white house gets their asswiping paper

They would have to print it out first.

I would be curious to how many people to support it.

[repsDTGdaily]

They would have to print it out first.

I would be curious to how many people to support it.

i'm sure many more would support it than would (will) sign.

[TaeBoNinja]

We should do away with the barriers to higher education for everyone qualified, and just add tons of online classes in public universities. AA become irrelevant and school's get their diversity without screwing over anyone.

[TimDF]

If it were the other way around the University would be shut down ASAP.

[zakatak333]

and this is 100% politically acceptable, why?

[TheodorHerzl]

It's funny, because if you take into account the numbers relative to the total population, whites are actually the most underrepresented race in college(even less than blacks)

[RingDips]

Good. Smash privilege where ever it rears its ugly head (except for leftist privilege in university positions, of course). I can't wait for the day we send all of those paleface cisbigots to death camps--uh, I mean, finally achieve the perfect harmony of a post-racial society.