pete@valid.UUCP (Pete Zakel) (07/17/86)
> Think the United Negro College Fund would have given me a > scholarship? Not a chance. Think that if I created the United White > Boys College Fund, the ACLU would drag my butt into court. You Bet! > (And rightly so, I might add.) Actually, no. If you set up a private fund you may give money to whatever group you wish. If you set up a PUBLICLY funded scholership program it had better help the public at large in a non-discriminatory manner, but private scholarship programs can be targeted (and many ARE targeted) at any selected group you wish. White protestant blue-eyed redheads of Irish descent? No problem. Purple wingajammies from the planet Thyroid? Go for it! -- -Pete Zakel (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!pete)
cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (07/18/86)
> > Think the United Negro College Fund would have given me a > > scholarship? Not a chance. Think that if I created the United White > > Boys College Fund, the ACLU would drag my butt into court. You Bet! > > (And rightly so, I might add.) > > Actually, no. If you set up a private fund you may give money to whatever > group you wish. If you set up a PUBLICLY funded scholership program it had > better help the public at large in a non-discriminatory manner, but private > scholarship programs can be targeted (and many ARE targeted) at any selected > group you wish. White protestant blue-eyed redheads of Irish descent? No > problem. Purple wingajammies from the planet Thyroid? Go for it! > -- > -Pete Zakel (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!pete) The distinction between "private" and "public" has been largely abolished by anti-discrimination laws. It's illegal to discriminate in employment and housing, even if you are not a government contractor. I doubt highly that the "United White Boys College Fund" would be legal -- but scholar- ships were administered by my high school specifically for blacks, Hispanics, and people of Italian descent. I KNOW that the courts would not have allowed them to administer the "UWBCF" scholarship fund. This is just plain hypocrisy. Clayton E. Cramer
bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) (07/23/86)
In article <926@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes: >>[...] >The distinction between "private" and "public" has been largely abolished >by anti-discrimination laws.[...] I doubt highly >that the "United White Boys College Fund" would be legal -- but scholar- >ships were administered by my high school specifically for blacks, >Hispanics, and people of Italian descent. I KNOW that the courts would >not have allowed them to administer the "UWBCF" scholarship fund. This >is just plain hypocrisy. A relative of my wife's (several generations back, I think) set up just such a private fund. It was challenged a few years back, but was upheld by the courts.