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From: rgale@wolf.UUCP (Ryan Gale)
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Subject: Re: privatization of education:re to Cramer
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Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 03:10:25 EDT
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> 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.

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