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09/25/2003 Archived Entry: "smu cookie sale"

BAKE SALE A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT

When race is used as a qualifier for college admissions, it's affirmative action. When race is used as a qualifier for the price one pays for cookies, it's a hostile environment. At least, that's the way Tim Moore, director of the SMU student center, sees it.

"Conservatives' Bake Sale Too Hot for Some Students to Handle

(CNSNews.com) - A demonstration against affirmative action hit a raw nerve at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday. The protest took the form of a bake sale. Young Conservatives of Texas sold cookies at different prices, based on the buyer's race and gender. Whereas white males had to pay a dollar for a cookie, white women paid 75 cents, Hispanics paid 50 cents, and blacks paid 25 cents for the same type of cookie. Offended minority students complained; shouting matches erupted; and the college stopped the bake sale less than an hour after it started because of the disturbance it was causing. "This was not an issue about free speech," Tim Moore, director of the SMU student center, told The Dallas Morning News. "It was really an issue where we had a hostile environment being created." The newspaper quoted David Rushing, chairman of SMU's Young Conservatives chapter, as saying that his group was simply copying what's been done at college campuses around the country. He said the bake sale represented all that's wrong with affirmative action."

"Offended minorities complained"?? What were they offended about?

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STOP the "HYPE". This group is benefitting from international recognition. Their opinion has ALREADY been heard, and is already shared by a critical mass of individuals who are basking in the aftermath of such an event. Please, let's move to other ways of discussing and approaching such a volitile issue, one that did not start with and will not end with events like these.

Posted by Toni Hill-Kennedy @ 09/27/2003 02:26 AM EST