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From: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Reverse Discrimination
Message-ID: <797@sigma.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jul-86 20:54:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 22 20:54:26 1986
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Reply-To: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
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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.