s Should be about 2 full paragraph length and cited please Question 1: Should minorities have lower admission standards in order to racially balance college populations? Should race and ethnic background be a consideration at all in the college admission process, or does that promote reverse discrimination? Consider the many different races affected by this. College Admission For Minorities The civil rights movement and President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty in the mid-1960s launched a movement for the nation to respond by offering equal access to education, housing, and other resources (Alger et al., 2000). In June 1965, President Johnson spoke at Howard University (DC), outlining the major principles behind affirmative action (Garrison-Wade, Dorothy F., Lewis, Chance W., Affirmative Action: History and Analysis, Journal of College Admission, Summer 2004 President Lyndon Johnson stated: "You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, 'you are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe you have been completely fair... This is the next and more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity-not legal equity but human ability-not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result" (ECS, 1). President Johnson reinforced his speech by signing an Executive Order in late 1965 mandating government contractors to "take affirmative action" in all aspects of hiring and employing minorities (Brunner, 2002). As a result of this mandate, many colleges and professional schools started to recruit minority students as a part of their education mission. Ultimately, this led to these institutions initiating admission policies that took race into consideration. These policies increased admission for African Americans and Hispanics at predominately white institutions. Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978) was the first case to question the legality of affirmative action policies in higher education. Allan Bakke, a white applicant, claimed he was wrongfully denied admission to medical school at the University of California to make room for less qualified minority applicants. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the establishment or use of "racial quotas" in determining admission violates the Equal Protection Clause of the fourteenth Amendment; however, institutions of higher learning can still consider race as one factor, among many, in the admission process. Over the next 25 years, affirmative action policies in higher education sparked many debates and raised many issues. Most recently, the Supreme Court ruled on the monumental decision in Grutter v. bollinger, (2003), which allowed the University of Michigan Law School to use race-based affirmative action to diversify its student body. However, in the (Gratz v. Rggewis (2003) decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the university's undergraduate College of Literature, Science, and Arts could not use an admission process that awarded points based on an applicant's race and ethnicity. The decisions by the Supreme Court have now changed the future of affirmative action in the undergraduate admission process, given that race and ethnicity cannot be awarded "extra" points to help admit certain applicants. Check out some of these other websites for more information: History of Affirmative Action Colleges Regroup after Voters Ban Race Preference Princeton Review: Affirmative Action Minority Student Opportunities in US Medical Schools Question 2: Does Religion Have a Place in the Workplace? Employers are required to make reasonable accommodations for employees' religious practices, much like reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. How does an employer determine what is reasonable and what is not reasonable? What or who determines what is \"reasonable\"? Do you believe that people should have the right to publicly practice their religion in the workplace environment or should religious practices be separate from the work environment? Why or why not? Question 3: If you were going to choose an organization to donate your money and time to, what organization would you choose and why? Also, do you feel the United States should be more or less involved with the governing of impoverished and struggling countries? US Aid So many countries all over the world need our help with humanitarian efforts. Many poverty stricken countries are in desperate need of food, water, and medicine. At the same time, we have millions of people in the United States who are living in poverty. NHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie with displaced Chechens in Bella camp, Ingushetia. The camp has since been closed. UNHCR/T. Makeeva UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie travels throughout the world to assist UNHCR in its work with refugees and displaced people. Recently she has released her journals from the Russian Federation and Jordan, where she visited in late 2003. The journals capture the hope and despair of the refugees and other displaced persons that Ms. Jolie met while on mission to these post-conflict societies