Whites Only Scholarship

Whites Only Scholarship

The Whites Only Scholarship was founded by Jason Mattera, a Roger Williams University student and member of the school Republican Party. The scholarship was a proposal to parody and highlight the inequity and unfairness of racial preferences at his school, and on colleges across America, Mattera said [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9qbhSuzHzs] . Mattera argues that he supports private organizations such as the Hispanic College Fund, The United Negro College Fund, and other groups that are privately funded and ethnically-based that award scholarships to members of their own communities, a position he claims is fully in line with freedom of association. However, he is opposed to federally subsidized institutions creating two classes of persons by imposing different standards on them. Either such universities should compile race-based scholarships for all students, or they should award scholarships on the basis of merit alone, he writes [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/mattera1.html] .

Roger Williams University chapter of the College Republicans (RWUCR) was condemned by Rhode Island's Republican Party and were no longer allowed to use a capital "R" in their name [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/mattera1.html] . The group still used the "R" in defiance. The student who won the scholarship donated the prize money to those affected by the 2003 Station Nightclub Fire.

A similar scholarship was offered two months later at the University of Missouri by Colin Kerr [http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2004/04/15/duo-creates-white-scholarship-as-protest/] , a sophomore who had just retired from running the campus' conservative political magazine. While Kerr consulted with Mattera before the release of the scholarship, he maintains it was independent project planned months before the release of scholarship at Roger Williams. Under the auspices of a group called the Kerr-Otis Partnership for Socio-Economic Scholarships (KOPSES), Kerr echoed similar arguments to that of Mattera, though his scholarship eligibility requirement of 1/8 European-American descent mirrored that of the University of Missouri-Columbia's criteria for minority status [http://www.themaneater.com/article.php?id=18903] . Furthermore, before the announcement of the scholarship Kerr brokered a deal between both the leaders of the liberal and conservative campus publications to remain neutral in their coverage. The essay contest asked students to describe "how their European-American heritage affected their view of race-based scholarships." An Asian-American student, whose essay detailed a history of discrimination by his Asian relatives for being partially Caucasian, was awarded the scholarship. It was estimated that at the height of the controversy, 70% of the university's student body supported the white scholarship protest.Fact|date=November 2007

Kerr's KOPSES organization eventually received wide multi-party support and later morphed into the American-Coalition for Socio-Economic Scholarships (ACSES), a short-lived national awareness group that lasted for over a year until its original funding ran short of its operating costs.

The trend in more sophisticated race-based scholarship protests continued when a white scholarship was offered at Boston University, known as the Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship. Similar to the KOPSES scholarship, the CARS scholarship required applicants to have at least 1/4 Caucasian heritage and although it required a photograph, did not specify that the photograph would be used as proof of race (since partially Caucasian applicants can apply).

References

* cite news
title=Whites-Only Scholarship Revisited
date=March 4, 2004
publisher=Lewrockwell.com
url=http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/mattera1.html/

* cite news
title=New Scholarship Created for Whites Only
date=February 16, 2004
publisher=CNN
url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/02/15/whites.only.ap/

* cite news
title=Roger Williams U. Group Offers Whites-Only Scholarship
date=February 17, 2004
publisher=The Daily Texan
url=http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/paper410/news/2004/02/17/University/Roger.Williams.U.Group.Offers.WhitesOnly.Scholarship-609215.shtml

* cite news
title=Duo creates ’White Scholarship’ as protest
date=April 15, 2004
publisher=Columbia Missourian
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2004/04/15/duo-creates-white-scholarship-as-protest/

* cite news
title=Editorial Missed the Point of White Scholarship
date=April 27, 2004
publisher=The Maneater
http://www.themaneater.com/article.php?id=18903

* cite news
title=Asian Student Awarded White Scholarship
date=March, 2004
publisher=Equitas
[Equitas]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Roger Williams University — infobox University name= Roger Williams University motto= Magna est veritas (Great is Truth) established= 1956 type= Private university affiliation= Non sectarian faculty= 398 students= 3,778 undergraduate, 855 graduate campus= Suburban,… …   Wikipedia

  • Reconstruction era of the United States — In the history of the United States, Reconstruction refers to the time between 1863 and 1877 when the U.S. focused on abolishing slavery, destroying the Confederacy, and reconstructing the nation and the Constitution. Reconstruction is also the… …   Wikipedia

  • race — race1 /rays/, n., v., raced, racing. n. 1. a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing. 2. races, a series of races, usually of horses or dogs, run at a set time over a regular course: They spent a day at the races. 3. any… …   Universalium

  • Race — /rays/, n. Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland. * * * I Term once commonly used in physical anthropology to denote a division of humankind possessing traits that are transmissible by descent and sufficient to characterize it as a… …   Universalium

  • The Bell Curve — For other uses, see Bell curve (disambiguation). The Bell Curve   …   Wikipedia

  • Enoch Powell — Infobox Minister honorific prefix = The Right Honourable Brigadier name=Enoch Powell MBE office = Minister of Health term start =27 July 1960 term end = 18 October 1963 primeminister =Harold Macmillan predecessor = Derek Walker Smith successor =… …   Wikipedia

  • Chinua Achebe — Achebe redirects here. For the fictional character, see Achebe (comics). Chinua redirects here. It is not to be confused with Chin hua. Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe (2008) Born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe 16 …   Wikipedia

  • Daughters of the American Revolution — DAR Constitution Hall The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a lineage based membership organization for women who are descended from a person involved in United States independence.[1] DAR has chapters in all fifty of the U.S. states… …   Wikipedia

  • Cape Flats — The Cape Flats (Afrikaans: Die Kaapse Vlakte ) is an expansive, low lying, flat area situated to the southeast of the central business district of Cape Town. To most people in Cape Town, the area is known simply as The Flats . Described by some… …   Wikipedia

  • Bhagat Singh Thind — Bhagat Singh Thind, PhD, (October 3, 1892 ndash; September 15, 1967) was an Indian American Sikh writer and lecturer on spiritual science who was involved in an important legal battle over the rights of Indians to obtain U.S. citizenship. Thind… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”