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A kind of follow up question: If we changed it from minority students to low income students, would it be unfair to middle class/upper class students?
Now we're getting into what the disparity in education is really all about. If you were going to open the 100 enrollments to students who fell under the title of "disadvantaged" on class/income lines alone, then I think you could get away with it. Even still, you would have to justify these enrollments being restricted along financial lines by tying them to some kind of scholarship or grant where a maximum income would be a mandatory qualifier. I could see the benefit in this much more than I can see the benefit in reinforcing the idea that minorities need a boost that whites don't.
I now invite hazlnut to call me racist or whatever nonsense he was spewing earlier. :doh