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Segregation Alive and Well at UCLA

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http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-06-13jl.html

Commencement weekend is hard to plan at the University of California, Los Angeles. The university now has so many separate identity-group graduations that scheduling them not to conflict with one another is a challenge. The women’s studies graduation and the Chicana/Chicano studies graduation are both set for 10 AM Saturday. The broader Hispanic graduation, “Raza,” is in near-conflict with the black graduation, which starts just an hour later.

Planning was easier before a new crop of ethnic groups pushed for inclusion. Students of Asian heritage were once content with the Asian–Pacific Islanders ceremony. But now there are separate Filipino and Vietnamese commencements, and some talk of a Cambodian one in the future. Years ago, UCLA sponsored an Iranian graduation, but the school’s commencement office couldn’t tell me if the event was still around. The entire Middle East may yet be a fertile source for UCLA commencements.

Not all ethnic and racial graduations are well attended. The 2003 figures at UCLA showed that while 300 of 855 Hispanic students attended, only 170 out of 1,874 Asian-Americans did.

Some students are presumably eligible for four or five graduations. A gay student with a Native American father and a Filipino mother could attend the Asian, Filipino, and American Indian ceremonies, plus the mainstream graduation and the Lavender Graduation for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students.
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Heh, I thought segregation ended in the 60's.
 
This is crazy, be proud to just gain your degree! I would want a ceremony with all my fellow students and just those of my own ethnic group, which is mixed anyway. I have no clue what ethic background I am other then I'm white.
 
mr rosewater said:
The women’s studies graduation and the Chicana/Chicano studies


Wait is that what they studied?
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A load of B.S.

Good luck to them with their burger-flipping careers.

Seriously, I don't mean to sound sexist/racist. But there's a lot of "studies" in universities that are little more than sops to leftist special-interest groups, and that train no one for any career (except maybe "Professor of Women's/Black/Chicano/Gay/Martian/Etc. Studies"). Can I get a degree in "Stoogian Studies"?
 
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shemp said:
A load of B.S.

Good luck to them with their burger-flipping careers.

Seriously, I don't mean to sound sexist/racist. But there's a lot of "studies" in universities that are little more than sops to leftist special-interest groups, and that train no one for any career (except maybe "Professor of Women's/Black/Chicano/Gay/Martian/Etc. Studies"). Can I get a degree in "Stoogian Studies"?
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My two nieces studied communications, they both graduated and work in advertising. Thank you KFC, and Benjamin Moore
 
I don't understand the people who attend more than one graduation ceremony. I begged and pleaded with my family to get out of mine. Identity politics is crap.
 
mr rosewater said:
The women’s studies graduation and the Chicana/Chicano studies


Wait is that what they studied?
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I pretty much majored in studying women while in college and I didn't get the special recognition ceremony, no special applause: I didn't even get the clap.:D

(Don't care who ya are, that's funny right there!)
 
When it's time for my graduation, I'm going to lobby to have a feline proxy ceremony so that Roswell and Perseis can "graduate" for me.:D
 
The graduation ceremonies at UCI (which I attend presently) have not reached this level of ridiculosity yet. Graduations are arranged by the academic school you're receiving your degree. However there are all sorts of ethnic clubs, which will officially admit anyone, but have monoethnic names such as "Chinese Association", and "Filipino Engineering Students Association". It gets even more ridiculous when you combine religion/sect and ethnicity. Then you open a whole new keg of worms with "Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC), Korean Student Ministry (KSM), and Korean-American Campus Mission (KCM)", or "Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF) and Asian Baptist Student Koinonia (ABSK)". I think it gets worse, but the online club directory doesn't accurately reflect the current registered clubs.

I would have thought that at least a (roughly) common ideology would have brought people together, not cause for further splintering.

And for the record, there is only one Rationalist/Agnostic/Atheist/Humanist club at UCI. I haven't attended yet because the meetings were too late! (and I wanted to spend time with my girlfriend)
 
shemp said:
A load of B.S.

Good luck to them with their burger-flipping careers.

Seriously, I don't mean to sound sexist/racist. But there's a lot of "studies" in universities that are little more than sops to leftist special-interest groups, and that train no one for any career (except maybe "Professor of Women's/Black/Chicano/Gay/Martian/Etc. Studies"). Can I get a degree in "Stoogian Studies"?
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You would think it wouldn't qualify them for anything practical, but I'm an Asian Studies major, and I make a reasonable living as a professional translator.
 
Khalid01 said:
The graduation ceremonies at UCI (which I attend presently) have not reached this level of ridiculosity yet. Graduations are arranged by the academic school you're receiving your degree. However there are all sorts of ethnic clubs, which will officially admit anyone, but have monoethnic names such as "Chinese Association", and "Filipino Engineering Students Association". It gets even more ridiculous when you combine religion/sect and ethnicity. Then you open a whole new keg of worms with "Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC), Korean Student Ministry (KSM), and Korean-American Campus Mission (KCM)", or "Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF) and Asian Baptist Student Koinonia (ABSK)". I think it gets worse, but the online club directory doesn't accurately reflect the current registered clubs.

I would have thought that at least a (roughly) common ideology would have brought people together, not cause for further splintering.

And for the record, there is only one Rationalist/Agnostic/Atheist/Humanist club at UCI. I haven't attended yet because the meetings were too late! (and I wanted to spend time with my girlfriend)
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Me and my friend were considering joining the Chinese Film Club. No, not an appreciation group for Chinese cinema...a group of Chinese students who make and watch films.

Our rationale is that they get a discount at the union Chinese restaurant.
 
Sir Robin Goodfellow said:
Graduation ceremonies are a waste of time and money. Going to one is bad enough, let alone several. What a lot of nonsense.
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Attending mine was one of the few highlights of my life. To have been graduated from college is a significant milestone. I wouldn't have missed celebrating it for anything.
 
I have trouble seeing a big problem with this. Why should I care if someone wants to celebrate with their own little graduation? A place like UCLA has only about ten million graduates each year. Having attended a few, I find myself wishing they'd segregate themselves even further.
 
FarmallMTA said:
I pretty much majored in studying women while in college and I didn't get the special recognition ceremony, no special applause: I didn't even get the clap.:D

(Don't care who ya are, that's funny right there!)
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If you didn't get any special recognition or applause while studying women then you were doing it wrong.

:D
 
mr rosewater said:
My two nieces studied communications, they both graduated and work in advertising. Thank you KFC, and Benjamin Moore
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It's interesting how US culture is evolving. Manufacturing, and now even more and more engineering, are being off-shored to other countries. The only thing left, for now, are nice jobs where you can earn a lot of money if you are skilled at the song and dance of sales tactics. If you can generate ads that increase your sales, woo hoo!

And that, for now, must be done only by locals who understand the other locals.
 
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