Bad college newspaper, no fish-biscuit

[sigma7]

An article in the annual joke issue of Princeton University's student newspaper has left some readers accusing its staff of racism.

The Daily Princetonian issue included a column with a byline that closely resembles the name of Jian Li, an 18-year-old Asian man who filed a civil rights complaint against the university last summer after he was denied admission....

...Under a byline of Lian Ji, the article published Wednesday used broken English and spouted racial stereotypes to bash the school for his rejection.

"Hi Princeton! Remember me? I so good at math and science. Perfect 2400 SAT score. Ring Bells?" the article begins. "Just in case, let me refresh your memories. I the super smart Asian. Princeton the super dumb college, not accept me."

Well, this has done nothing for me except inexorably entwine the ideas of "Princeton" and "the super dumb college." Someone translate that to Latin for me and we've got a new motto!

Comments

[querldox.livejournal.com]

As I recall, Jian Li was admitted to Yale, where he currently attends school. The issue in question is whether Asians fall under minority status, since while they clearly are in the American population as a whole, they're massively over-represented in prestigious universities as compared to that overall population percentage. It's believed that there's a formal or informal quota on the number of Asians accepted, causing many qualified applicants to be rejected due to their ethnicity.