rgale@wolf.UUCP (Ryan Gale) (09/18/86)
> Our high school administered several scholarships which were OPENLY > for BLACKS ONLY, for HISPANICS ONLY, for people of ITALIAN DESCENT ONLY. > Maybe Tim's memory is short. I was one of five Merit Scholars at my high school in 1969; we were all white middle-class. A recruiter told us openly that if any of us had been black, he would have bent over backwards to get us to attend his college; since we weren't black, however, we'd be competing [abeit on favorable terms] with everyone else. In 1972 (I think), my cousin was invited to come to the local state state university to apply for a scholarship. Naturally, he went -- and found himself to be the only non-Hispanic in the room. An official suggested that he shouldn't be there; he produced his letter of invitation and was asked to step inside. Seems that they'd sent out a mass mailing to Hispanics; as my cousin's name (obviously non-Hispanic) ended in 'Z', he'd been filtered in. I'm willing to accept that the situation today is different, but 10-15 years ago things were very much as Cramer has described them. -- -- Ryan Gale ...!sdcsvax!jack!wolf!rgale