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I didn't see anywhere in the cited news articles any reference to a stipulation stating the white males were excluded from access to the scholarship money...
Aside from the donor(s) wanting to be anonymous, this is the closest to a discussion of the terms:
Did the content in the articles change?
did you not read, or what? It clearly says what i quoted from the article, in the article
Assuming your statement is factual...just because more women than men attend college, doesn't mean those women are necessarily able to afford college. When I say afford, I mean that you are fully paid up on college AND all of your regular bills. A lot of women struggle on that point. Not all. But quite a few do. If you went out on the streets and surveyed women in general about student loans I guarantee you the majority of them don't know what their options are. They're also the ones most taken advantage of by banks and lenders who assume that females are generally helpless when it comes to financial management - unfortunately, that general statement is often true - and I don't see the situation changing anytime soon.
And before you ask, I speak from experience: I worked in the student loan industry during both its peak and its fall, federal and private. There are so many women who have debt they don't even know about: mothers who just sign on the line for their kids, women going back to college who sign paperwork and don't even know they've just extended over $100,000 worth of debt to go to school - and the shock hits them when they get done and can't find a job fresh out.
i certainly hope that since you have been in the industry that you were doing your part to protect women from that kind of stupidity, and men as well.
Some rich guy looked at the statistical data, and made a decision. And old_cold is correct: almost every scholarship has similar restrictions. There are scholarships for women only, some for men only. There are scholarships for minorities only. This is no different than any of those.
Yes, there are scholarships that are DIRECTED TOWARDS certain groups, and I don't think that is racist/sexist because maybe the donor has some connection with that group. However, this particular scholarship is inherently racist because it specifies whom to keep it away from. "Everyone but white males," sounds very similar to "everyone but black males." It's not encouraging a specific group to excel, but instead saying that it doesn't want a group to progress.
But if its based on race its racist. What would one think if they only exclued black and mexican males. If they take it then that can happen . He has a right to do it but he needs to manage it himself not give it to a instiitution that is under mandates not to discriminated.
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