Comments on: Little Asia on the hill http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/2007/01/09/little-asia-on-the-hill/ Ricky Opaterny on Books, Music, Art, and Sports Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:25:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rick http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/2007/01/09/little-asia-on-the-hill/comment-page-1/#comment-7951 Rick Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:03:58 +0000 http://www.gen-o.com/blog/2007/01/09/little-asia-on-the-hill/#comment-7951 I think part of the issue here is that he writes an entire article on race without admitting the possibility that it's simply a mask for economic status. I think at one point he admits that the people going to college are coming from wealthier and wealthier families. Because certain groups have made little progress on the income scale over the past 15 years, their populations in higher education have stagnated. I think part of the issue here is that he writes an entire article on race without admitting the possibility that it’s simply a mask for economic status. I think at one point he admits that the people going to college are coming from wealthier and wealthier families. Because certain groups have made little progress on the income scale over the past 15 years, their populations in higher education have stagnated.

]]> By: evicious http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/2007/01/09/little-asia-on-the-hill/comment-page-1/#comment-7942 evicious Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:54:06 +0000 http://www.gen-o.com/blog/2007/01/09/little-asia-on-the-hill/#comment-7942 Maybe the long discussion we had at Maxine's about said article dampened your actual reaction after reading the piece. I think Egan did a fair job portraying the situation in universities. But I wish he talked more about the root of the problem: why aren't more Latinos and blacks getting into universities? The problem isn't that too many Asians are getting in. And changing university admissions policies won't fix the problem. Black and Latino children have less access to good public schools. Compared to Asians they may receive less community support when it comes to doing well in school. How will limiting the Asian population at universities solve these problems? On a separate note, I have no problem with universities funding ethnic clubs, although I wouldn't participate in them myself. At Berkeley, there were a lot of Asian clubs, which I thought was pointless since the campus had so many Asian students as it is. But would you oppose to a student association for blacks? Why shouldn't people have different ways of finding their ethnic identity? Maybe the long discussion we had at Maxine’s about said article dampened your actual reaction after reading the piece. I think Egan did a fair job portraying the situation in universities. But I wish he talked more about the root of the problem: why aren’t more Latinos and blacks getting into universities? The problem isn’t that too many Asians are getting in. And changing university admissions policies won’t fix the problem. Black and Latino children have less access to good public schools. Compared to Asians they may receive less community support when it comes to doing well in school. How will limiting the Asian population at universities solve these problems?

On a separate note, I have no problem with universities funding ethnic clubs, although I wouldn’t participate in them myself. At Berkeley, there were a lot of Asian clubs, which I thought was pointless since the campus had so many Asian students as it is. But would you oppose to a student association for blacks? Why shouldn’t people have different ways of finding their ethnic identity?

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