Perhaps something rabidly progressive is in the water in Wisconsin, or more specifically in the municipal water supply around Madison Wisconsin. Whatever it is, the tension and propensity toward violence, specifically racially charged violence is escalating. Wisconsin has been a Left Wing version of an Arab Spring all year, and it just got a big boost of racial tension.
From the same state that brought us the Wisconsin Fleebaggers, and then the Wisconsin Capitol union takeover, which preceded the University of Wisconsin-Madison fake doctors notes for lying school teachers, and the union thugs pouring glue into Catholic school door locks, and culminated in the Wisconsin State Fair racially violent flash mobs, the stakes have now been raised to outright University Student Thuggery.
A recent published study of college admission bias from the Center for Equal Opportunity found a blatant practice of discrimination against Whites and Asians systemic within the admissions practices of the University of Wisconsin. So blatant are the discriminatory practices that a state investigation has now been requested by lawmakers.
But as typical with this type of consideration it is not the study, or even the results, that gain the attention of the media, it is the violent response from the administration and students. Their response to the finding was incredibly consistent with the recently visible leftist approach, violence and rioting. However, in this example it was the University Administration that directed and orchestrated the violence. First the report:
The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO), an advocacy organization opposed to racial and ethnic preferences, has released a report accusing the University of Wisconsin at Madison of extreme bias based on race and ethnicity in its undergraduate and law school admissions. The center, which filed a lawsuit in order to obtain the admissions data, alleges that African-Americans and Latinos were given preference over whites and Asians.
The studies claim that the odds ratio favoring African-Americans and Hispanics over whites was 576 to 1 and 504 to 1, respectively. For law school admissions, the racial discrimination was also severe: An African-American applicant with grades and LSAT scores at the median for the group would have had a 7 out of 10 chance of admissions and an out-of-state Hispanic applicant had a 1 out of 3 chance, compared to an in-state Asian applicant (1 out of 6 chance) and an in-state white applicant (only a 1 out of 10 chance) with those same grades and scores.
Based on the findings, the CEO chairman Linda Chavez said, “This is the most severe undergraduate admissions discrimination that CEO has ever found in the dozens of studies it has published over the last 15 years. The studies show that literally hundreds of students applying as undergrads or to the law school are rejected in favor of students with lower test scores and grades, and the reason is that they have the wrong skin color or their parents came from the wrong countries.”
Read the findings and study HERE
It’s no wonder the university wanted to keep the information secret. The studies show that a black or Hispanic undergraduate applicant was more than 500 times likelier to be admitted to Wisconsin-Madison than a similarly qualified white or Asian applicant. The odds ratio favoring black law school applicants over similarly qualified white applicants was 61 to 1.
The median SAT scores of black undergraduates who were admitted were 150 points lower than whites or Asians, while the median Hispanic scores were roughly 100 points lower. And median high school rankings for both blacks and Hispanics were also lower than for either whites or Asians.
On Tuesday during a press conference in Madison, Wisconsin, The Center for Equal Opportunity released the two studies. The degree of discrimination in undergraduate admissions was the worst CEO had ever seen in the 15 years they have been publishing these studies of universities all over the country.
Well, this was not a message that the university and others wanted to hear. Instead of addressing the findings of the study, the university’s vice provost for diversity, Damon A. Williams told the students to “take action, and “organize a response”. Now granted he didn’t tell them to “take out the sons of bitches“, but the intent was essentially the same.
Egged on by inflammatory comments by university officials, student groups organized a flashmob via a Facebook page that was filled with propaganda and outright lies about CEO wanting to dismantle their student groups. More than a hundred angry students stormed the press conference at the Doubletree Hotel in Madison, where CEO president Roger Clegg was releasing the study.
The hotel management described what took place in a press statement afterward:
“Unfortunately, when escorting meeting attendees out of the hotel through a private entrance, staff were then rushed by a mob of protestors, throwing employees to the ground. The mob became increasingly physically violent when forcing themselves into the meeting room where the press conference had already ended, filling it over fire-code capacity. Madison police arrived on the scene after the protestors had stormed the hotel.”
The good news is that by the time they actually broke into the room where the press conference was being held, the press conference was almost over. In fact, the only people still asking questions were disgruntled students. So, in effect, the protestors succeeded only in shutting themselves down!
Still, it was a chilling display of attempted intimidation. Private property was broken into, a hotel employee injured, and the mob attempted to follow CEO President Roger Clegg into the elevator when he was returning to his room (the hotel staff stopped them).
You’d think that a responsible university would denounce the intimidation and lack of civility by its students and faculty. Instead, Vice Provost Williams told the student newspaper:
“I’m most excited about how well the students represented themselves, the passion with which they engaged, the tone in how they did it and the thoughtfulness of their questions and interactions.”
It appears that not only are the university’s admissions policies deeply discriminatory, but also that university officials applaud name-calling, distortion and outright physical assault.
The bottom line: CEO’s studies got lots of publicity, and the issue of racial and ethnic admissions preferences is on the front burner in Wisconsin (a state legislator has already announced that he plans to have hearings on whether the university is violating the law). The University opponents and students have been revealed as intellectually bankrupt, if not downright thugs. Much like their State Fair flash mob cohorts.
