Affirmative Action: Nicole Stern

            I believe affirmative action will help educational equity. We are currently caught in a cycle of “we need to fix this then we can fix that” all the while we are doing nothing productive. While affirmative action will not be a fix-all, it will start something. Affirmative action does not “take spots away from more qualified students” it gives students a chance whom otherwise might not have. The white privileged students who are complaining about this will get into fine colleges; affirmative action is not against the majority—it’s pro-minority. Discrimination does still exist especially in the admissions offices, so affirmative action helps level the playing field in that sense. Let’s face it, the system is set so that if your family is rich you will most likely stay that way. If you are under-privileged you will most likely stay that way. Affirmative action might just help a student from the lower-middle class become a doctor, with a better paycheck than their parents had. Affirmative action also benefits the schools. A diverse school has more people questioning and debating, because they have different experiences. That is what will give students an outstanding education.  

--Nicole Stern