tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post3565097470439990850..comments2024-03-27T14:20:05.905-04:00Comments on Montclair SocioBlog: Hypocrisy or “Tacit Knowledge”?Jay Livingstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06652075579940313964noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-43768235111650116292011-06-24T14:19:35.101-04:002011-06-24T14:19:35.101-04:00Peter, Thanks. Two years ago at parents’ weekend ...Peter, Thanks. Two years ago at parents’ weekend where my kid goes to school, in the depths of the financial crisis, the president of the university spoke about financial diversity. He drew a U-shaped curve in the air with his hand. “The ones over here – they can pay, no problem. And the ones over here [the other end of the curve], they’re OK because we can give them good financial aid. It’s the ones in the middle we worry about. The problem, as a friend put it, is how to make college ‘affordable to the one-lawyer family.’”Jay Livingstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06652075579940313964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-33262489479874257862011-06-24T14:00:21.568-04:002011-06-24T14:00:21.568-04:00Well said.
I want to point out, as an example, th...Well said.<br /><br />I want to point out, as an example, that both my father and wife are were beneficiaries of geographic affirmative action (people rarely seem bothered by this... when the recipients are white). <br /><br />[I too, as a "legacy" child, could also been seen as an affirmative-action winner.]<br /><br />My father and my wife were both from New Mexico. And neither, based on their academic record, would have been admitted if they graduated from Stuyvesant High School (well, my wife, maybe; my father, no way).<br /><br />My father in particular lacked some basic requirements (like good grades in in algebra). But when a recruiter came to Albuquerque High School in 1951 to pick one student from New Mexico, they gathered the smartest kids in a room. My father firmly believed he was the one picked because he was the only one who knew the school's colors. <br /><br />Both my dad and wife show how affirmative action can benefit the individual and the college. Both of them succeed in college and life, and both, I like to think, improved other students' college experience. And very likely both, as my father liked to say, "Took a Princeton education away from some smart New York Jew."<br /><br />Personally, just FYI, I think affirmative action would be better for all if it were more based on money (or lack thereof). The thing about those Ivy Leagues is that so many of the students are so damn un-diversely rich.PCMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13647097472236933108noreply@blogger.com