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I agree that the point system is patronizing. I am kinda in the middle on the this system and Affir. Action as a whole. At my school, I feel this system is needed. I honestly think our diversity would drop if the point system were taken away. However, I also don't like it. I really wish we were at a point where we could do away with stuff like that and have things occur naturally (like Corbin stated earlier). BUT, like I said, I'm not sure if diversity would naturally occur at the rate it is now. And as I said, it's not all that great now anyway. IMO, minorities would need to equal at least half of the student body before they decided to do away w/ the point system. At this point, we wouldn't be a minority, but equal (or pretty close to it). However, when this will ever happen, I don't know. So until we can get to this point, I'm down for keeping the point system going. It's quite an interesting system too. I learned about it my Junior year. At first, I was upset, but then it kinda made me wonder how many points I got!
[This message has been edited by ZChi4Life (edited November 03, 2000).]