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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
I would have to say coincidence...2 heinous murders on the same campus that just so happens to be perpetrated by Asians? Just think of the odds on that one.
And back to your earlier concern, just think of what type of discriminatory practices would arise if college campuses were ever allowed to perform any type of mental evaluation of incoming students to any program.
The SATs descended from a mental test...which was concidered to be anti race and anti immigrant. No sense in giving schools more tools to illegally weed out people they don't want.
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There's a big debate about whether states should be allowed to ask questions about mental history when someone applies to be a member of the state bar. One of the professors at my law school wrote a widely-read article on it, and now there's a big debate as to whether the practice discriminatory, where the line should be drawn, etc.
I would imagine that an undergrad admissions process that looked at mental health records would elicit the same, if not, stronger debate.
I really think this is a coincidence - unfortunately you find acts of violence (whether resulting in murder or not) on college campuses across the country. It just happens that VT had a very public act of violence that has attracted the public microscope, so when things like this happen, people will be looking for patterns.
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