You remember that 'racist' bake sale out at Berkley awhile back? It made national news because the College Republicans out there were offering cupcakes at a discounted price for women and various minority groups. For some reason, people got PISSED. I didn't really understand that- after all, the College Republicans undoubtedly had a finite number of cupcakes and if you're a minority (or a female minority- even better!) then you could probably buy out the whole bake sale and in essence, shut it down.
Problem solved, right? Nope- Berkley being Berkley, they freaked.
The protest was against affirmative action admissions policies-- but students at Fordham decided to hold their own bake sale factoring ALL admissions criteria into how they priced their cupcakes- including family income, legacy status and athletic ability. The results were interesting and Fordham gets a win by staging a more accurate bakesale than Berkley did. Hopefully a lot of interesting discussions can result from this...
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