Back in the JS
4 January 2007
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I have returned to do more damage to journalistic integrity across the globe:
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I have returned to do more damage to journalistic integrity across the globe:
Enjoyed your piece in MJS about affirmative action. I recently sent a letter ot the editor on the subject but it was not printed. I am using your blog to share my own less than humble opinions. Here is the letter:
To: Editorial Page
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
RE: A Personal Affirmative Action Plan
Affirmative Action is back in the news, especially as it applies to higher education. While institutional affirmative action plans remain controversial, I would ask any young person planning on college three questions:
1. What is your goal?
2. What is your personal affirmative action plan for achieving your goal?
3. How are you putting that personal affirmative plan into action in your everyday life?
For instance, you may be in the ninth grade thinking you would like to be a medical doctor. That is a worthy goal, but the goal is not enough. Medical school is tough. Just getting in is a major life achievement. You need to have, and live, a personal affirmative action plan that includes spending the next eight years signed up for a full schedule of the hardest classes and doing the work that it takes, every day, to get straight A’s in every class while excelling in a variety of extra curricular activities.
Students living a reality based personal affirmative action plan for achieving their worthwhile goals are unstoppable, with or without the advantages of white skin, family connections, or institutional favors.
Students relying on their white skin, family connections, or someone else’s affirmative action plan will be left in the dust.
Wow, I didn’t know this thing let people comment. Thanks for the feedback.
Interesting stuff. I like the individualized perspective.
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