[Where they only hand out four letter grades, A, B, C, and F. Two course failures and you're history. The incoming veterinary class at LSU in the fall of 2011had an average GPA of 3.72, out of state students needed to do even better. You only need a 3.2 to qualify for Ohio State's med school. "Oh well, after he finished with his African studies courses he could always beat a doddering old WWII wounded veteran to death with a heavy flashlight or he could drive up in a car behind a white jogger and shoot him in the back, undoing Martin Luther Kings deeds 24/7/365. Could the same affirmative action mechanisms have been at play at Columbia U and Harvard Law and be the reason for the continued high unemployment rate today, eight million Americans just having given up looking for work and the lovely political situations in Egypt and Syria, the four dead in Benghazi along with the possible 400 missing Stinger missiles? Yeah, I know, "At this point what difference does it make?" Oh that Hillary, always at the top of her game, be it cattle futures or dead diplomats. "It depends upon what the meaning of 'is' is."] "The Los Angeles Times recently published a devastating case study in the malign effects of academic racial preferences. The University of California, Berkeley, followed the diversocrat playbook to the letter in admitting Kashawn Campbell, a South Central Los Angeles high-school senior, in 2012: It disregarded his level of academic preparation, parked him in the black dorm the African American Theme Program and provided him with a black-studies course. The results were thoroughly predictable. After his first semester, reports the Times: [Kashawn] had barely passed an introductory science course. In College Writing 1A, his essays pockmarked with misplaced words and odd phrases were so weak that he would have to take the class again. His writing often didnt make sense. He struggled to comprehend the readings for [College Writing] and think critically about the text. It took awhile for him to understand there was a problem, [his instructor] said. He could not believe that he needed more skills. He would revise his papers and each time he would turn his work back in having complicated it. The paper would be full of words he thought were academic, writing the way he thought a college student should write, using big words he didnt have command of. His grade-point average was 1.7, putting him at risk of expulsion if he didnt raise it by the end of the year. The one bright spot in his academic record? Why, African American Studies 5A, of course! Kashawn had received an A on an essay and a B on a midterm, the best grades of his freshman year: Kashawn reveled in the class [a survey of black culture and race relations], in a way he hadnt since high school. He would often be the first one to speak up in discussions, even though his points werent always the most sophisticated, said Gabrielle Williams, a doctoral student who helped teach the class. He still had gaps in his knowledge of history. But, Williams said, you could see how engaged he was, how much he loved being there." http://nationalreview.com/corner/356718/devastating-affirmative-action-failure-heather-mac-donald
