[Alumni-chat] What will the BOT do?

[Jane Slater (imabused at aol.com)]

>In a message dated 9/3/2007 3:55:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>alumni-chat_forum at antiochians.org writes:
>
>The attraction of Antioch to  Jews had a great deal to do with the fact that most other selective Liberal Arts Colleges had a Jewish Quota, and particularly among more Progressive -- or shall I say Civil Rights Aware Jewish groups, the idea of competing within a small quota for a place at say Harvard or Amherst or even Oberlin was very distasteful, but it was an attraction of Antioch.  That didn't change till  1966 when the 1964 Civil Rights Act provisions outlawing Quotas took  effect.
Sistersara, I'm trying to stay out of these discussions but you've hit a hot button in me. Quotas may have been legally abolished in the 1960's but there continued to be a very strong quota system which worked to limit we  Jews to many institutions of higher learning... they developed a discretionary admissions process ... purportedly to gain more diversity. 

Thus we have a relative of mine, who in the 1970's earned a perfect 800 score on not just both of his SAT's, but three perfect 800 scores on his Achievement tests (one in Russian)... so very rare ... and had so many other attributes which made him a great college candidate ...who was denied admission to some of the top name schools. For us, it was hard to swallow.

I'm not saying a diverse student body is not important, but there are also times when you have outright racism. I recommend you read Chutzpah by Alan Dershowitz. I grew up sometimes feeling I am a guest in my own country of citizenship.

Jane Slater
Class of '80