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Thread ID: 12575 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2004-02-29
2004-02-29 18:14 | User Profile
Student paying price for 'white' scholarship By Robert Carroll, Globe Correspondent, 2/26/2004
WEYMOUTH ââ¬â He figured heââ¬â¢d use the $250 scholarship to fill the gas tank in his car, buy a few text books, and maybe even a couple of "freebie" pizzas for his friends. What Roger Williams University student Adam Noska said he didnââ¬â¢t anticipate when he received a "whites-only" scholarship last week was a campuswide assault on his character. From the moment dozens of students at the Bristol, R.I., school turned their backs to Noska when he accepted the cash award from the College Republicans, the Weymouth resident found himself branded as the Big Racist on Campus.
Itââ¬â¢s a label he insists is unfair.
"Iââ¬â¢m not a racist or a white supremacist," Noska said last weekend, after deciding to donate the $250 and pledging to raise more for charity. "I wasnââ¬â¢t prepared for the level of disappointment people have shown me. I mean, Iââ¬â¢ve been overwhelmed. I became a minor celebrity on campus, and for the wrong reasons. I saw this splitting the campus community, and Iââ¬â¢m worried that the school name could become synonymous with a whites-only scholarship. It wasnââ¬â¢t supposed to be this way."
Noska, 20, said he applied for the scholarship with tongue in cheek, after .nding out about it only a day before the Feb. 17 deadline to submit essays.
"I wrote what I felt was a humorous look at how being white today means being used as a punch line," said the junior classvice president. "It was a takeoff on what [Sports Illustrated columnist] Rick Reilly once wrote about how [African-American] basketball players like Shaquille Oââ¬â¢Neal grew up being made fun of if a white player dunked on them. Reilly wrote about if youââ¬â¢re white youââ¬â¢re not supposed to have feelings if someone makes fun of you. I kind of did the same thing. It certainly wasnââ¬â¢t something about whites being the greater race."
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2004-02-29 18:58 | User Profile
Holy hell, already.
The kid take 250 bucks and he gets treated like a mass murderer?
Then he donates the money he needs to charity and pledges to raise more? I wonder what charity his money went to?