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Monday, April 07, 2003
Pulitzers awarded today.
Peggy Noonan shot down again. Colbert King of the Washington Post, on the other hand, won. From his latest:
Meanwhile, back here on the home front, we're all still about lining up behind our own racial and ethnic groups, defining ourselves by our disagreements and making it a trial to be human.
This week's examples of what I'm talking about: Jennifer Gratz and Ed Kwiatkowski.
First, Gratz, who was Topic A at the Supreme Court a few days ago. She wanted to attend the University of Michigan in 1995 along with thousands of others. It turns out that 4,000 applicants were ultimately granted admission to the university. Alas, Gratz, who had a good SAT score and grade-point average, was not one of them. In fact, more than 1,500 students with grade-point averages and SAT scores lower than Gratz's got into the school. Those 1,500 students, by the way, were not beneficiaries of affirmative action; they were admitted on the basis of other admissions criteria that awarded extra points on a 150-point admissions scale to ensure that a broad and diverse array of talented students attend the university.
Gratz apparently was okay with that, because she didn't kick up a fuss about the 1,500 students with lower scores and grades who got in ahead of her. But then she learned about other students with lower scores and grades who got in because the university awarded them 20 points on the 150-point scale. The difference between the 1,500 students with lower scores and grades than Gratz and the others with lower scores and grades is that the latter group -- minorities -- were beneficiaries of affirmative action.
It seems that Gratz, who is white, could graciously lose out to white students with lower grade-point averages and test scores. But losing out to similarly situated African Americans and Latinos was just too much to take.
Second place to them? Pass the smelling salts.
So she sued.
Go read the rest.
Dave Horsey wins the prize for Editorial Cartooning. I like this one.
Meanwhile Noonan steadily works on her Pope John Paul II book, Humping the Shoes of the Fisherman: Faith, Hope, and Sexual Hysteria
That sucker's got Pulitzer written all over it....
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