y. The implication here is that there was something wrong or even laughable about hiring him because "...he was a member of Phi-something fraternity."(220). Many people join fraternities and sororities not to engage in keg parties every Friday night, but to be able to "network" after graduating from college. There are also many fraternities that are academically based such a Phi Theta Kappa here at BCC, of which I am a member. Organizations such as this look good on a transcript and sometimes are even the deciding factor in admission to graduate school. To compare a persons race or circumstance of birth to being an active and voluntary member of an organization is patently absurd. Using this experience as a premise for argument is even more so.Lastly, Martin touches on the subject of education. In his article he presents only one statistic,~ the percentage of minorities enrolled in medical school in 1980 (10%) as compared to 1960 (5%). These statistics do not however show the percentage of those who actually graduate. It is a proven fact that students who are not properly prepared for postsecondary education and are admitted on the basis of race or gender do not fare as well as truly qualified white students. Robert M. O'Neil, attorney and Vice President of Indiana University, published a study of white law students vs. black ones. The study conducted by Professor George N. Stevens in conjunction with the Association of American Law Schools Bar Examination Study Project, carefully observed 1,042 minority students during their three years in law school and when taking the bar Ellison 3examination (68). According to Stevens' findings, "154 minority students were dismissed for academic reasons ~ a rate higher than that for white-Anglo students...167 students simply disappeared...and 100 of these [minority] students withdrew voluntarily during the three years"(qtd. in O'Neal 69). Stevens goes on to report that out of 408 graduates who t...
