I’ve sat on this since it first showed up on Drudge. The MSM stayed far away from it.

This makes everybody special. Isn’t that what the PC’ers want? It works for me having everyone just as special!

BOSTON, Nov. 22, 2006 — Joe Mroszczyk, president of the College Republicans at Boston University, admits he set out to stir up a hornet’s nest when he came up with the idea of offering a whites-only scholarship at the school. But he got a little more buzz than he bargained for.

“To tell you the truth, we didn’t see this coming,” Mroszczyk said. “The Drudge Report picked it up yesterday, and today I just finished a round of national interviews. It’s kind of overwhelming.”

All the media attention is focused on a $250 Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship offered by Mroszczyk and the BU chapter of the College Republicans. Applicants must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher; they must write two essays; and, here’s the kicker, they must be at least one-quarter Caucasian.

The application itself offers an explanation: “We believe that racial preferences in all their forms are perhaps the worst form of bigotry confronting America today.”
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At BU, for example, students who are at least one-quarter Hispanic can apply for a National Hispanic Recognition Scholarship.

“There are plenty of poor, white, academically gifted students who need that money just as much,” Mroszczyk said.
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“It’s a poor way to talk about affirmative action,” said David Coreas, the 21-year-old senior who is president of the Latino fraternity Phi Iota Alpha at BU. “If they want to have a scholarship, then let them have a scholarship, but they’re stirring up controversy in the wrong way.”
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But for all the talk, there are still no takers for the scholarship. The application has been available online since Nov. 7, and so far not one student has filled it out.

That’s money wasted, according to David Coreas.

“I wish I could apply: That $250 could help me pay for my textbooks,” he said.

Coreas isn’t eligible, though.

But for BU students who have a pretty good GPA and can write a couple of essays, there’s still time, as long as they’re also 25 percent Caucasian. The deadline for applications is Nov. 30.

The Supreme Court has reopened the issue of affirmative action with two cases involving whether school districts may consider the race of students in assigning them to public schools. Cases from Seattle and Louisville, Ky., brought the divisive issue before the court for the first time since 2003.

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