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Thread ID: 5047 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-02-16
2003-02-16 15:42 | User Profile
[url=http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=22913]http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articl...es.asp?id=22913[/url]
"An affirmative action bake sale organized by the Bruin Republicans last week has provoked impassioned responses from a top California Democrat and political student groups on campus.
The sale, held on Bruin Walk on Feb. 3, offered cookies at different prices depending on the customer's race and gender. Black, Latina and American Indian females were charged 25 cents for cookies that cost males of minority descent 50 cents. White females were charged $1, and white males and all Asian Americans were charged $2.
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2003-02-16 15:45 | User Profile
Orellana sees the effort by the Bruin Republicans as detrimental to the discussion of affirmative action.
"By reducing the complexity of this issue into dollars and cents and cookies they are working to stop discourse," he said.
Why, how dare they?!?!