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Middlebury College has created a new affirmative action policy that includes LBGT students. Other colleges (Loyola New Orleans and Claremont-McKenna) are considering similar policies.

What do you think about these policies? Helpful? Harmful? No opinion? Read the article and post your comments.

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Personally, I do not like AA programs at all. O think they can sometimes be used as a crutch instead of doing what they are supposed to do and that is help. At the same time, it also hurts more qualified students because they get discounted do to internal racial profiling... or in this case gender/orientation profiling.

And this is not coming from the perspective of a white man. I am a proud "OTHER" ;0)


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Hard to say. I'm not fond of AA either--neither as a human being in general (if somebody can't get into a college/get a job on their own merits, then why does anyone think they'd be able to handle said curriculum/job once it's handed to them?), nor as a woman (I'd not want to know I got a job simply because I have a [censored], as opposed to knowing I was actually the best candidate). But as I'm finding out with this whole "Proposal 2" thing in Michigan, I'm not sure that I necessarily want AA outlawed either, not while I'm able to read on a message board that a woman was TOLD at a job interview that they didn't feel that a woman could supervise that many employees.

As far as lgbt/AA though...I dunno. You can't look at someone and know they're gay (or straight, or married, or single, or a parent, or whatever) the way you can tell by looking that someone is black or female, so I'm not entirely sure what the point of it would be; unless you walk into a job interview and announce "Hi, I'm Bob and I'm gay," then how will they know so they can discriminate?

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"how will they know so they can discriminate?"

One more checkbox on a form... or so I hear.

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yeah you can check the box or not LOL


I know we did our first GLBT student orientation and they could check the box in case they wanted to be part of the orientation.


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