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Since the passage of Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action at California public universities, UC Berkeley has watched its minority student communities shrink by half. Surprise, surprise. We’re only now barely recovering from this hit. To help the recovery along, UCB students are spending this summer doing full-time work as full-time volunteers. Their goals are to motivate and provide resources to high school minority students. One student explains that their focus is on students of low income and “disadvantaged backgrounds.” Take that, 209.
If this sounds like your idea of a hoppin’ party, we want to encourage you to do some research and get involved this fall semester with one of our several outreach organizations on campus, such as bridges, Pilipino Academic Student Services, reach!, Black Recruitment and Retention Center, RAZA Recruitment and Retention Center, Native American Recruitment and Retention Center and Mixed Student Union. Think of this as a tree-less, professor-harassing-less way to bring about change to this campus.
Image Source: Dawn Endico under Creative Commons
Students recruit minorities to UC in ways institution can’t [Mercury News]
Comments:
Aug 9, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Isn’t the Daily Cal supposed to be impartial? Blatant support of one side.
Aug 9, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Gah! Cal. Use Cal, not UCB, when abbreviating the school.
Aug 10, 2008 at 6:07 am
The Daily Clog has never claimed to be impartial and the site disclaimer clearly states:
The Daily Clog does not represent the opinion of The Daily Californian or its senior editorial board. The Daily Clog presents commentary solely from the blog staff.
So, no, you can’t force your own opinions into the press by turning positive coverage of student group activities that came about as a reaction to Proposition 209 into a journalistic faux pas.
Aug 10, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Why necessarily use Cal? It is UC freaking Berkeley. If I talk about UC SanDiego I say UCSD; San Francisco, UCSF; UCB is totally fine.
Aug 10, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Sorry, I didn’t know that the clog was so autonomous from the Daily Cal.
Aug 8, 2008 at 8:19 am
i’m from a low income household and a ‘disadvantaged background’…but i’m asian. what does that make me?
what makes a minority a minority?
all this stuff confuses me…