I asked Song of the Suburbs reader and SIUC history professor Jonathan Bean about the issue and he wrote back to me that DOJ investigators have missed an even bigger program:
Actually, they missed the worst program of all, the so-called "cradle-to-grave" affirmative action program DFI (Diversifying Faculty in Illinois). This program pays members of certain racial groups--including Asians who are triply OVERREPRESENTED as faculty--to go to graduate school (plus $17,000 stipend) and they pay back by taking a tenure-track job at one of 34 institutions, including private colleges in Illinois (e.g., Northwestern). This program is different because, at SIUC's behest (I am told), the state legislature established it in 1985.
He also added under the DFI program minority groups who have gotten into the program can continue to benefit when they become overrepresented in the larger faculty pool:
It's not just "anti-white," as the Sun Times implies. No "whites," no people from North Africa, no Middle Easterners, and no people from certain Asian countries need apply. However, if you were born in Latin America to a white businessman who works for a multinational -- bingo! You are "Hispanic." Defining race and distributing benefits on this basis is not only wrong and illegal, it often violates common sense (as the case of the Asians shows). When I challenged, in writing, the inclusion of Asians in the DFI program, I was later told by an administrator that, yes, they are triply overrepresented overall but still underrepresented in areas like English literature! What this means is they will never admit success: once a group is "in," it is in FOREVER.
Bad stuff from the bottom part of the state.
Read here for more information on Professor Jonathan Bean, specifically, his battles with the moonbats at Carbondale's Southern Illinois University, courtesy of the Southern Illinoisan.
A little off topic, but this excerpt from Leftist SIU history professor Robbie Lieberman was too good to pass up:
Lieberman said no one is attacking Bean's views or even his right to discuss controversial topics in class. The main problem, she said, with Bean's handout is it came from an Internet source that had questionable ties.
Using the Internet as a source of material in the history department is generally frowned upon, Lieberman said, because its validity is not always certain.
"I don't personally let students with research papers get things off the Internet," she said.
Has Lieberman ever heard of the Memogate scandal? The internet was right on that one, as well as some others.
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