Im confused, is it illegal to use quotas ( affirmative action ) in the selection of students at Universtites?
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It is legal to use race as one of a number of factors is determining admissions.  This was decided by the Supreme Court (Bakke decision).  The ruling stated that race cannot be used as the primary factor in determining admissions, but can be used as part of the decision process.\n\nAlthough no company will ever admit to quotas in the job market, it does exist.  Diversity is the new way of life to many people.
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Well, that's called age discrimination and it's illegal.  I believe the law is that they must hire the most qualified candidate regardless of age, gender etc etc.  Contact the EEOC if you want to make an issue of it.
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They are fully justified.There is a limit to votebank politics.Just to appease their OBC votebanks the Govt is trying to deprive the General Category students of their seats.There is a limit to reservation.It is not that there is no reservation,reservation already exists but now they want to get it upto 50% and that is real pathetic and if the students are protesting which is their right in a democracy I see nothing wrong with that.
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I don't agree with this policy.I believe it's unjust to meritorious students.Instead I feel backward caste students should be provided training so that they can compete with other students.This is better than spoon-feeeding them by providing quotas.
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It's not called discrimination...because some employers have the right to do "ANY" check they would like to do before they hire you. They can do background, credit, income, employer,,,,etc..
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You need to understand that not all kinds of discrimination are illegal.  In the real world, people get turned down for things all the time (which is a form of discrimination) based on lack of creditworhiness, ownership of collateral, good references, or any one of a thousand other legal reasons.  Illegal discrimination is discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, sex, age, handicap, etc. I would not think that requiring a deposit from you under these circumstances would constitute discrimination unless you suspect that the real reason for the requirement is your race, religion, national origin or any other suspect classification.  Many businesses, including landlords, offer incentives as part of a sales pitch, but there's almost always some fine print that says you have to qualify to get the incentive.  In your case, if your landlord's sales pitch was subject to his receipt of your rental or credit history (a very routine requirement), he had every right to change the offered terms if you don't meet the requirements.  Read your rental application very carefully (look at the fine print on the back) and see if there isn't some language that allows them to modify their requirements depending on your credit, rent history, references, etc.  On the other hand, if you have solid evidence that they are changing the rules because of your race, religion, etc., you may have a case.
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No.  It is the fact that the laws that are intended to try to even the playing field like affirmative action are racist.  Racism works both ways.  To not be racist is to not care what ethnicity a person is.  Though I am white, I always fill out the forms saying that I am blasian.  What's worse is that laws like affirmative action don't attack racism, they just try to turn men of a different race white.  It is trying to force assimilation.
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Definitely not.\n\nPositive discrimination for one group legitimises discrimination against another.\nThen it can be used as a legal/moral justification for future discrimination.\n\nAddressing root causes is the way to address discrimination: not by (eg.) appointing less suitable candidates for posts merely because of a disability/race/religion/etc.
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some courses has a number qouata varies in UP campus.\nfor eg BS Accountancy in UP Diliman has a quota of 100 stud but in UP Los Banos has a qouta of 150. and some campuses dont. is this what you mean?.?
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It's legal. What's illegal is if the possible employees get discriminated against because of their answers
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Affirmative action involves giving preferrential treatment to one group over another.  It isn't really any better than the Jim Crowe laws.\n\nThe irony is that people who believe in affirmative action, tend to do so on the basis of eliminating racial inequalities.  This is contradictory by nature.\n\nUnfortunately, racism and inequity will never be completely eliminated, by affirmative action or any other means.  You simply can not legislate away the opinions of others.\n\nIn the meantime, affirmative action gives fodder to those with racist agendas, and provides little if any benefit.  Not to mention that it necessarily means that qualified, deserving cantidates will miss opprotunities for employment and education based on their race.  Isn't this what we're trying to stop?
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All decent General Category candidates will go to foreign universities if they will not get admission here. However, not all students can afford foreign universities. This means that the meritorious General category students will lose out to the worst SC/ST/OBC students.\n\nThe quality of education will be affected badly. I've seen SC/ST candidates getting admissions to colleges under quota system. But most of them are not able to complete their graduation because they are not compatible. This is not useful to these people and also it is unfair to the merit students who lost seats because of these people.\n\nThe idea should be to concentrate on primary education so that SC/ST/OBC candidates become competent enough to get graduation seats on their merit. But our politicians just want vote banks. They are not interested in welfare.
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In respect to the ban on affirmative action, many leaders in the minority community support this.  They believe it hurts schools and businesses as they are forced have to meet quotas of minorites in their employment, not getting the best candidates based on merit.    \n\nSo if you have to have 10 spots open and you need 8 minorities, you hire the people based on the quota's you have to meet, not choosing the best who applied.  You are just filling spots.  You can't hire a white man because you need one more woman or mexican person to comply with the law or face fines.   Or you don't hire a black woman with an MBA because you have your quota of blacks, so you hire a white woman with an associates degree.   Discrimination is discrimination and it works both ways.  \n\nAs for the school funding initiative, where is the funding going to come from?  The state would of had to fund minimum requirements of 565 million per year.  With this state losing so many jobs and the lottery obviously not covering education funding, what are they going to get the money to fund the shortfall?   You can't just print money!  So will there be an increase in taxes for gas, cigarettes, sales, businesses, or property in the future?  Increase DMV fees, tags, start toll roads, \nwhatever they can?  \n\nMichigan is at 7.1% unemployment whereas the nation is at 4.4%.  We citizens cannot afford to spend more to fund a mis-managed government.
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R u looking for this site..If not also Pls sign this,if u like it and try to send this to as many people as possible..\nThank u\n\nhttp://www.PetitionOnline.com/No_Quota/\n\nDear Friends,\n\nI have just read and signed the online petition:\n\n   "Say No to Quota in Higher Education"\n\nhosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition\nservice, at:\n\n   http://www.PetitionOnline.com/No_Quota/\n\nI personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might\nagree, too.  If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and \nconsider\nsigning yourself.\n\nBest wishes,\n\nakanksha
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No, you don't automatically get in, but they should give you an idea when recruiting about whether you are a shoe-in to get into the school, or whether there are some other things you need to work on like grades or test scores to ensure you get into the school.  And be careful about being recruited right now, its not legal.  If you want to play in the NCAA, you need to read up on the rules and regulations for recruiting so you don't accidentally break any rules and ruin your eligibility.
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Some Dude is correct.  The exception is Asians.  When considering applicants for university admissions, several points are *deducted* from Asians' scores -- only because they're Asian!  Yet, many more times that number of points are ADDED to black applicants -- only because they're black!\n\nExcept for Asians, minorities are often favored, even at the expense of others.
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reservations are total disaster for any country. no government has the right to play with the potential of its youth. \nbesides giving reservations, there should be financial aid given to these students and for that matter any deserving student through scholorships and other means.