Asking Applicants if They’ve Ever Been Arrested is now Off-Limits at Some Colleges
Let me get this straight. Higher education is hyperventilating over “rape culture” but you can’t ask applicants if they’ve ever been arrested?
That makes sense.
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports.
Colleges Agree Not To Ask If Applicants Have Been Arrested Because It’s A Discriminatory Question
Under an agreement with the New York State Attorney’s office, St. John’s University and two smaller schools will no longer ask prospective students if they have “ever been arrested or convicted of a felony.”
The problem with the question is that it is racist and it might negatively impact the futures of criminals, The New York Times explains.
“An arrest or police stop that did not result in a conviction, or a criminal record that was sealed or expunged, should not — indeed must not — be a standard question on a college application,” New York Eric T. Schneiderman said in a statement obtained by the Times. “Such a question can serve only to discourage New Yorkers from seeking a higher education.”
Schneiderman brought the heavy hand of his office to bear on the issue after an advocacy group called the Center for Community Alternatives raised concerns.
The overarching goal of the Center for Community Alternatives is to reduce prison incarceration for people who commit crimes.
Now, St. John’s, a large Catholic school in Queens, as well as for-profit Five Towns College and private Dowling College will no longer seek to discover whether students have been mixed up with the law as part of any normal application processes.
Colleges Agree Not To Ask If Applicants Have Been Arrested Because It’s A Discriminatory Question (The Daily Caller)
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What we’re seeing ishe natural outgrowth of the conflict of standards in idenity politics.
(I’ll use the term liberal or lefty as a broad brush – but it’s not l folks in that camp, to be fair)
Liberal ideologies share a common trait : no one single standard. The ends justify the means, and a single standard or principle cannot be held.
For instance: Lefty professors / admins don’t want prospective students being asked about a criminal history as this is discrimination. The individual should have privacy.
Lefty professors / admin do, however, want possible sex offenders to be identified because feminists women want this to happen. The individual right to privacy is trumped by identity group of women.
If you look at PC / Liberal / Lefty politics it’s always the ends justify the means and they don’t hold a single standard for all people regardless of race, gender etc. They can’t.
It’s all based on subjective thinking.
What if the arrest/conviction was for a sex crime?
I can see the “no asking if arrested” but the question ought to be “have you ever been convicted of a felony”.
I say felony because there are too many kids having records for minor in possession of alcohol or tobacco.