Academia is full of educated idiots.
The University of Texas is committed to a diverse student body, but only 4.5 percent of its undergraduate students are black. A university committee has concluded that by renaming a 50-year-old dormitory, more blacks will enroll at UT.
Therefore the university's president is going to recommend to the Board of Regents that they approve renaming the dormitory which is named after a long-dead UT professor who was a founder and active member of the Florida KKK.
In the past, black students complained about several statues of Confederate war heroes on campus. In response, the university erected a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. on its campus. Did that lead to an in increased black enrollment? What do you think?
Now I have absolutely no problem with renaming a building because it honored a member of the KKK. But to think that doing so will increase the percentage of blacks at UT is absolutely ridiculous. I suspect the low number of black students is due to a combination of the university’s entrance standards and their failure to pass courses if they were admitted under UT’s special minority set-aside program.
The thinking that a bunch of statues or the name of a dorm are a hindrance to achieving diversity proves that the University of Texas has its share of educated idiots. And to top it off, us poor taxpayers are paying their salaries.
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Texas needs to take a cue from California and lower entrance standards, give more scholorships to target groups for other than academic achievement, and make it nearly impossible for a member any targeted group to flunk out.
Scholorship has to become a secondary consideration.
It can be done...
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