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Editor:
I am responding to Ravi Bhalla's unintelligent jibber-jabber about why affirmative action is necessary in order to give minorities a fair playing field in today's society ("Student's ignorance about minorities 'ridiculous,'" Sept. 18). Moreover, I am here to inform this ignorant senior that color has little to do with one's opportunity to attend a public university.
If you were to look at the facts Ravi, you would be able to realize that it is one's socioeconomic situation which correlates with the opportunity to be a university student. It is people who grow up in poor neighborhoods and/or grow up without a loving family that need help in order to make it in this world. Ravi, these are the people who have been deprived the necessary essentials of life, not minorities in general.
So, Ravi, I hope you now realize that race does not apply to one's chances of succeeding in the educational spectrum of America. A university should accept people based on their grades and SAT scores, as well as take into account the lifestyle in which they had to live. Being black, white, brown or yellow doesn't apply!
Concluding, Ravi, why don't you just sit on your "dumb ass" and think before you write a letter which makes absolutely no logical sense.
Jared Green
political science sophomore
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