Conservative Cookies

[Boudicea]

Why are these freeps so mean-spirited?

Texas University Shuts Down Bake Sale
Associated Press

DALLAS - Southern Methodist University shut down a bake sale Wednesday in which cookies were offered for sale at different prices, depending on the buyer's race or gender.

The sale was organized by the Young Conservatives of Texas, who said it was intended as a protest of affirmative action.

A sign said white males had to pay $1 for a cookie. The price was 75 cents for white women, 50 cents for Hispanics and 25 cents for blacks.

Members of the conservative group said they meant no offense and were only trying to protest the use of race or gender as a factor in college admissions.

Similar sales have been held by College Republican chapters at colleges in at least five other states since February.

A black student filed a complaint with SMU, saying the sale was offensive. SMU officials said they halted the event after 45 minutes because it created a potentially unsafe situation.

"This was not an issue about free speech," Tim Moore, director of the SMU student center, said in a story for Thursday's edition of The Dallas Morning News. "It was really an issue where we had a hostile environment being created."

The sale drew a crowd outside the student center and several students engaged in a shouting match, Moore said.

David C. Rushing, 23, a law student and chairman of Young Conservatives of Texas at SMU and for the state, said the event didn't get out of hand. At most, a dozen students gathered around the table of cookies and Rice Krispies treats, he said.

"We copied what's been done at multiple campuses around the country to illustrate our opinion of affirmative action and how we think it's unfair," he said.

Matt Houston, a 19-year-old sophomore, called the group's price list offensive.

"My reaction was disgust because of the ignorance of some SMU students," said Houston, who is black. "They were arguing that affirmative action was solely based on race. It's not based on race. It's based on bringing a diverse community to a certain organization."

The group sold three cookies during its protest, raising $1.50.

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled universities could use race as a factor in admissions under limited conditions. In Texas, universities had been banned from using race as a factor under a 1996 decision by a lower court.

[Chovexani]

1. Conservative cookies?

<Wednesday Addams> Are they made from real conservatives? </WA> :evilgrin:

[soupkitchen]

2. The Cookies were given to them by their parents

They kept all the profits. And who ever paid full price got a rebate under the table later.

[AntiCoup2K4]

3. So how much did they charge the white people for CRACKERS??

:evilgrin:

[trotsky]

4. The freeps here at work passed that article around.

I asked why the students hadn't given a discount to legacies too, which would more accurately mirror the point systems at universities like the U of Mich.

The crickets are still chirping.

[LynneSin]

5. Geez, if Yale had it - They'd be paying Dumbya to take the cookies

:eyes:

[liberalhistorian]

6. And these are probably all kids

from white, well-off families, who've had every advantage and who've never had to worry about anything.

[Iris]

9. at SMU? Most definatley. Rob Lowe's alma mater, I believe

[MissMillie]

7. they should have done it the other way around....

charge everyone $1 for the cookie, but give women 75% of the cookie, and blacks & hispanics whatever percentage they earn on the dollar.

[Iris]

8. oh. I thought the cookies were priced according to the disparity

in the incomes of these groups.

Silly me.

[WoodrowFan]

12. Thats what my wife thought

I told her about, she thought it was a nice protest about wage differences. When Is aid it was a RW protest towards affirmative action she said "that makes no sense, morons." LOL

[Iris]

15. I like your wife!

[KCDem]

10. what confuses me (math help needed)

It says:
The group sold three cookies during its protest, raising $1.50.

Now, if men were charged $1.00, women .75, hispanics .50, and blacks .25, and 3 cookies were sold to total $1.50, two blacks and a white male bought cookies, or else my math is wrong. I can't get any other combo to work out to $1.50. Geez, didn't the black people see the insult of it? I can understand wanting cheap cookies and all, but frankly, I wouldn't trust anything sold by a self-admitted club of conservatives.

[Brucey]

11. Maybe some of them lied. I heard white men like to do that.

In fact, the white men leading our country seem to enjoy lying a great deal.

[cmf]

16. 3 Hispanics could have bought cookies for that same total. n/t

[Cheswick2.0]

13. kick

kick

[Cheswick2.0]

14. .

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[cmf]

17. They're a bunch of morans.

I don't even know what they were protesting. It's not like Texas schools can even use race as a factor in admissions.