Dougie...I agree, I shouldn't criticize your position as much as disagree with it. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings! I do think you tend to agree automatically with everything Bush says and does, though.

    As for legacies, I think they are weighted at less than five but I don't have the magazine in front of me as I am at the orifice and wasting time I told my therapist I would stop wasting instead of complaining about not having enough time to do everyhting! Should legacies be eliminated as a category? I don't know.

    I wouldn't eliminate gender as a criteria either, because I am in favor of diversity in working and school situations and I think that it is a very sensible goal. How else can we learn to get along and help everyone to gain access to the gifts our socioeconomic system has given us? I don't have answers but I am in favor of Affirmative Action at the moment.

The UofM system is mostly based on ability. 110 of 150 points are based on academics and how your curriculum and high school is rated. Males in nursing get one more point than legacies I believe, so what do you think about that?

Affirmative Action but I am still of the belief that it is too early to stop using Affirmative Action. However, since Hispanics have surpassed blacks as the countries largest minority, one would expect that more Hispanics would benefit from Affirmative Action than other minorities (notably blacks) at this point. hg