Two new polls – Quinnipiac and CNN – support the much-derided Newsweek numbers. Somehow I don’t think people have grown disillusioned with the president because of gay marriage.
EMAIL OF THE DAY: “Have spent many years in the elite environs of higher ed and can tell you that whatever you think you know about admissions, it’s tens time worse. The ‘minority’ admissions rarely graduate and few even get to be sophs.
All the administration wants is to meet their quota of freshman accepted for admission.
What it does to those poor kids is criminal. They’re so disoriented, totally fish out of water. They don’t have a clue how to behave, how to dress, how to talk, how to read and write at the level of the freshmen accepted at the competitive northeast institutions. It’s truly pathetic. Their classmates spend vacations skiing, going to their cottages at the beach, traveling, they have their own cars, their own plastic, etc. As far as the quota kids are concerned, they may as well be from outer space.
The reaction is to act up and act tough further alienating themselves. It’s an awful system.” – more feedback on the Letters Page.
The Dish 