they dont allow blacks at oxford or cambridge

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PokerGuy

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Title is wrong. There's nothing in your link to say that any group was not 'allowed'. There's simply statistics showing that one group is underrepresented, with no verified information on what might be the cause for that under-representation.
 
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xj0hnx

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Liar.

while a Cambridge spokesperson told the Guardian that "Colleges make offers to the best and brightest students regardless of their background, and where variations exist this is due to supply of applications and demand by subject."
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When black students do apply, recent analysis of Oxford's figures show that subject choice is a major reason for their lower success rate. Black students apply disproportionately for the most oversubscribed subjects. 44% of all black applicants apply for Oxford's 3 most oversubscribed subjects (compared to just 17% of all white applicants). That means that nearly half of black applicants are applying for the same three subjects, and these are the three toughest subjects to get places in. This, not discrimination, goes a very long way towards explaining the group's overall lower success rate. Oxford is confident that is has an extremely rigorous and fair selection process and the University is certainly not discriminating against students on the basis of ethnicity.
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bamacre

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Headline-only readers of HuffPo aren't getting any actual news. I swear, their headlines are about as bad as dave mcowen's thread titles.
 
Drako

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bamacre said:
Headline-only readers of HuffPo aren't getting any actual news. I swear, their headlines are about as bad as dave mcowen's thread titles.
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Maybe he has gone to work for them? I swear I saw an article on the evils of vinegar a couple of weeks ago over there. :)
 
shortylickens

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OBLAMA2009 said:
do you really believe that? where i went to college they were able to at least find SOME qualified blacks without too much trouble
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So you posted a link with some "evidence" that actually had no evidence, someone else posts real evidence and then you shit on him?

Dude, just leave for a day. You obviously dont wanna contribute and only harass those who do.
 
OBLAMA2009

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shortylickens said:
So you posted a link with some "evidence" that actually had no evidence, someone else posts real evidence and then you shit on him?

Dude, just leave for a day. You obviously dont wanna contribute and only harass those who do.
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could you imagine a college, esp a public one like cambridge or oxford, in the u.s not having any blacks?
 
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OBLAMA2009 said:
could you imagine a college, esp a public one like cambridge or oxford, in the u.s not having any blacks?
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Apparently we don't need to imagine it.

So what do you suggest they do? Let the black students take the place of a more qualified non-black student?
 
xj0hnx

xj0hnx

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OBLAMA2009 said:
could you imagine a college, esp a public one like cambridge or oxford, in the u.s not having any blacks?
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Can you imagine schools and jobs giving positions to people that are qualified on merits beyond the color of their skin?
 
manimal

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Where I work there are no Eskimos so therefore my workplace is racist against Eskimos...
 
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Another thing people might be missing is that these universities are split up into subdivisions. Certain of these subdivisions took no blacks. The Guardian's title makes this clear, Huffington's posts crap doesn't. (OMG a certain school doesn't have any black engineering students doesn't sound as impressive)
 
HAL9000

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Infohawk said:
Another thing people might be missing is that these universities are split up into subdivisions. Certain of these subdivisions took no blacks. The Guardian's title makes this clear, Huffington's posts crap doesn't. (OMG a certain school doesn't have any black engineering students doesn't sound as impressive)
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Yeah I wouldn't pay much attention to this, I lived in cambridge for 3 years. There are black students and Cambridge. (the colleges I know anyway)
 
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CanOWorms

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The UK has strong class distinctions. The caste system must be preserved. So has commanded the Queen.

Deny them education, then complain when they use any sort of state services. Encourage the hatred. So has commanded the Queen.
 
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CanOWorms said:
The UK has strong class distinctions. The caste system must be preserved. So has commanded the Queen.

Deny them education, then complain when they use any sort of state services. Encourage the hatred. So has commanded the Queen.
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As prophesized, the Euro-hating one has come! No matter how bad misleading the headline is, you can count on him to assume it's true as long as it makes Europeans look bad. Yee-haw.
 
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Infohawk

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ANother dumb thing about the article. It says Oxford received 35 applications from black students last year! How is it Oxford's fault if it has to choose from black 35 applicants?
 
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CanOWorms

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Infohawk said:
As prophesized, the Euro-hating one has come! No matter how bad misleading the headline is, you can count on him to assume it's true as long as it makes Europeans look bad. Yee-haw.
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As always, the Euro-supremacy one has replied! No matter how horrible the news is, you can count on him to assume it's true as long as it attacks diversity or equality. Yee-haw.
 
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