Is it legal for universities to be racist?

Question

Is it legal for university to allocate students to university accomodation on the basis of their race? Is it legal for the university to restrict a group of students to designated area? If the university is aware of the fact that majority/all of the students under a package deal are of the same race, by restricting these students to a designated area, is this intentional racial segregation? Is it legal?

What if ALL the students under the package deal is of the same race? The package deal was designed to attract students from a particular country.

Restricted to a designated area means: All package deal students are only allowed in house number "this" to "that", all grouped in a small area. They are not allowed in other areas even if they requested for it or opting to pay extra. In addition to that, all the rooms in different areas has the same rental price.

The situation is this:

A university designed a package deal to attract students from a particular country. Under the package deal, the fees included accomodation and tuition fees.

Please note that students accepting the package did not opt to receive less in exchange for the marginally lower fee. they have other choices and accepted the package deal because this university offer to provide the same quality for slightly lesser price.

However, after accepting the deal and too late to back out, the university behaved as if the students opt of less by paying less. They set restriction on where students can live. Of the hundreds of houses, the students, all of the same race, are all allocated in 20 houses all in the same area. And when students requested for change, or opting to pay more to move to bigger rooms, they are refused. They are only allowed in the area and if they do not accept the allocation, they would forfeit their accomodation.

Answer 1

If they are under a package then they can restrict based on the package regardless of the race makeup. It would only be illegal if they restricted the housing based on race and in this case that does not appear to be the case. All members of the group are restricted therefore since it is applied across the board it would be hard/impossible to prove it was done on the basis of race and not the "package".

Once must remember that in order for it to be racist the decison must have been made based on race. While obviously there is a number of the same race under the package deal as long as it is applied to all who are part of the package then it is obviously not based on race.

To the two poster above, you are correct racist is illegal, BUT in this case the poster has described the discrimination is based on the package deal selected, NOT race.

Answer 2

Not enough data to answer the question!

The answer depends on absurd little technical details about the program and the nature of the designated area and and the classification of the students and other minutia.

if the university has a clever attorney who was consultted when the program was set up, it will probably get away with it. If the program hits a technical landmine, then, blam! It's de jure racial segregation and the university has a problem if it receives federal money.

Answer 3

Unfortunately the NAACP and other entities has made racism the safe policy they follow. Look at the racist NAACP college funds, the racist Congressional Black Caucus, the racist Miss Black USA and a host of other programs which are devoted exclusively for one race. I understand that their was racism slanted in the other direction in decades past. I understand that these programs were intended to balance the books as it were. When will it ever stop? Racisms has now bent much in favor of the minority. In the State of New Jersey their is a Department of Minority and Womens Affiars. If you are a minority you are not allowed to be discriminated against by any organization which Male Majority might do business, but the Male Majority is discriminated against by the State Department of Minority and Womens Affairs. Is that right? As long as the racism is slanted against the Male Caucasion, then it is legally acceptable.

Answer 4

Yes, racism is totally legal as long as it is designed to give advantages to a minority race that struggles. Asians don't get a lot of prefernces under the law because they are successful, as a race. White guys get no break. This theory of social justice was started under the guise of helping the minority races overcome the effects of past discrimination. Pure quotas are illegal, according to the Bakke decision 25 years ago or so. To get around that, no one calls it quotas anymore.

Martin Luther King Jr. is spinning in his grave ... "I have a dream ... where black children are judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." This new brand of racisim cloaks minorities who earn success with the label of "quota kid."

Answer 5

The Church of Latter-Day Saints is traditionally racist. i will probable get a thumbs down, yet until eventually 1978 they taught that Blacks weren't allowed into heaven, they weren't allowed into the preisthood or maybe to be married in the Temple, and at one element a Church representative claimed Blacks represented devil. So perchance no longer the faculty as in the edifice itself, although the roots of the church are racist, and all people who has talked about that faith to the T probable is likewise.

Answer 6

It depends on whether it's a public or private school, I would think.

Quotas are highly discouraged through criticism and poor ratings, but I don't think they're illegal. Are you referring to a particular university?

Answer 7

If they receive public funds, then the answer is no, they are not allowed to be "racist".

Private universities that receive no public funds can do whatever they want in this regard.

Answer 8

Public Universities.....yes.

Private Universities....no. They can come right up to you and say "Hey, I don't like you...I don't want you in my class" and you can't do nada about it

Answer 9

No racism is legal anytime or anywhere!!

Answer 10

No it isn't legal!