Harpgirl: I think it's a bit presumptious for you to criticize what I think. My thoughts and beliefs are my own. You don't have to agree with them, but I do have a right to them, right or wrong.

On the subject of points. I think 20 points for athletics is too much too! However the point system you printed from Newsweek (I presume)also includes points for "Alumni." Surely you, and others so critical of GWB because he got into Yale because his father was alumnus, do not believe it is fair of the University of Michigan to include it in theirs also...is so?

How many points would I assign? Maybe five.

I would still rather see it based on ability rather than accident of birth though.

I think Nicole makes a good point (if I read her right). There are some poor white young people who have been disadvantaged as much as a member of a minority (perhaps even more)and could be deprived of that good education simply because they were born of white parents.

DougR