Suppose that you had to write a paper on whether you thought military intervention in some other country was ever justified.
What would you write? Do you believe there would ever be any situations under which resort to war would be justified? 2-page essay.
Campus Diversity
During the last couple of decades, colleges and universities have tried to increase their numbers of minority students by various forms of affirmative action. At campus X, this had led to no small amount of dissension. Some students complain that the policy of accepting students with lower SAT and other scores just because of their race or minority status is unfair. Others believe that the diversity that results from such policies is good for everyone because we should learn to live together and a university campus should be a place to do this. Still, there is some question, even among the members of this group, as to how well the integration is working.
Furthermore, a different type of problem has recently surfaced. Because Asian Americans were represented in numbers greater than their percentage of the population, some universities were restricting the percentage they would accept even when their scores were higher than others they did accept.
Also, in some cases where affirmative action has been eliminated, the number of minority members accepted into certain medical and law schools has plummeted, and many people find this alarming.
Do you think that diversity ought to be a goal of campus admissions? Or do you believe that only academic qualifications ought to count? Why?