New Scholarship at WSU

[WuDrWu]

Thoughts?

http://foundation.wichita.edu/page.aspx?pid=620&srctid=1&erid=467329&trid=ec563265-7975-4b48-b8d3-9584d946bffa

I don't know what the academic qualifications might be, but you better not like chicken.

[Kung Wu]

Thoughts?

http://foundation.wichita.edu/page.aspx?pid=620&srctid=1&erid=467329&trid=ec563265-7975-4b48-b8d3-9584d946bffa

I don't know what the academic qualifications might be, but you better not like chicken.

Well the article doesn't say it's an academic scholarship. It says it's an endowed scholarship. So I think it's a scholarship for men with a large twig and berries? As an afterthought doesn't that discriminate against the lesbians?

Kidding aside, I don't know why this would be controversial? It's private people spending money how they see fit, which is what it's all about isn't it?

[WuDrWu]

Help me out here @Kung Wu: , an endowed scholarship doesn't go through the University at all, so they can choose whomever they want to be the recipient? And they can choose to end it at anytime, again if they so choose?

Just trying to understand the difference.

[WuDrWu]

It's private people spending money how they see fit, which is what it's all about isn't it?

Absolutely. I was just curious how the selection process worked, if it was handed out by the University, but I think my understanding was way off base.

[Capitol Shock II]

Well, I'm against discrimination....all discrimination. That being said if I started a scholarship for white heterosexual men only I can only imagine what the blowback would be? I would probably be labeled as a white supremist homophobic pig.

It's their money and they can do what they want with it but at some point we all become human beings and awards based on sexual preference, color or sex only divide us. Just my opinion.

[_kai_]

That is amazing. Good day to be a Shocker.

[pinstripers]

Gay people giving their money to support only gay students. Seems wrong. I dunno.

[Kung Wu]

Help me out here @Kung Wu: , an endowed scholarship doesn't go through the University at all, so they can choose whomever they want to be the recipient? And they can choose to end it at anytime, again if they so choose?

Just trying to understand the difference.

Its been a long while since I was involved with one but there was tremendous flexibility in setting one up at the time. You could pretty much carve it out any way you wanted.

[SB Shock]

Gay people giving their money to support only gay students. Seems wrong. I dunno.

how do they prove your gay if you apply for it?

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[SubGod22]

I've never been a fan of giving scholarships based on race or gender or whatever. If you deserve a scholarship or think you do, compete for it like everything else in life. Nothing should be given to you because of what you are or aren't. Just my opinion.

[_kai_]

It's for gays and supporters of gay rights. You don't have to be gay to get it, just support equality no matter what your sexual preference is. So basically the only way you wouldn't qualify for this scholarship would be if you opposed equality for gay rights.

[WuDrWu]

I wonder what gay rights are and how they differ from the rights of everyone else.

[_kai_]

I wonder what gay rights are and how they differ from the rights of everyone else.

You could go to a county courthouse and ask if gays can get married. That would be a good difference.

[MoValley John]

You could go to a county courthouse and ask if gays can get married. That would be a good difference.

Gays can get married in any state and any county or parish. There is no law anywhere keeping gay men from marrying a woman. That goes for gay or straight men alike. There are restrictions, however, precluding men from marrying men.

Boston Legal had a great episode on this very subject.

[MoValley John]

All of this aside, I have no problem with this scholarship. The more endowed scholarships at every school the better. Or should I have said the more the merrier.