Laura, Randall. “The Other Legacies: Fac Brats.” New York Times 16 Jan. 2005: pg. 4A. 12. Academic Search Premier. ProQuest. Tompkins Cortland Community College Library. 22 Feb. 2009
Claim: Laura Randall the author for this article claims that legacy admissions definitely do exist in our collages and institutes. She claims that there is a large percentile of incoming students that are able to attend the collage through legacy admissions.
Evidence: Evidence for this claim is the following: Mark McMenamin decided to obtain a job at Mount Holyoke College, an all-woman’s collage, while looking into the future of his children. The benefit of him working there is that the collage waves tuition for full time employees that work there. In the University of California 20 percent of the freshmen are alumni students.
While is this a credible source: Laura Randall is not a writer of just one article or two. She has written many books including: The Political Economy of Brazilian Oil, The Political Economy of Mexican Oil and The Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil. She is also a professor at Hunter College, City Chair University and a co-chair of the Brazil Seminar of Columbia University.
You Tube Video
mkokai1. Pope Center's George Leef discusses legacy admissions. February 27, 2008. You Tube. 22 Feb. 2009 < v="actn2KyD4E0.">
http://www.popecenter.org/issues/article.html?id=1966
Claim: Money, money and more money is the issue that George addresses. From the information that he has received it seems to be that colleges are out there looking for more money rather than students. The more your parents gave the bigger chance you have of attending the collage or institute. Colleges are accepting athletes not students that want to learn something and put it to use in the public bringing forth profit to the rest of the people.
Evidence: There is a joke that has been spread that athletes can’t even read their diploma when they receive it. I don’t know how true this is but I think that it probably does happen at times. Sports are not the only issues when it comes to legacy admissions in schools. Parents who have contributed a large amount of to the college have no problems at all with getting their children to attend that collage. In 2003 Senator Edward Kennedy stated that he will try and do the best he can with making colleges show publicly their data on legacy admissions but it did not turn out so. Data (from the University of Virginia) shows that 65 percent of legacy admitted students contributed to the university’s capita campaign compared to 41 percent of the others who attended the university.
Why is this a reliable source: George Leef is vice president for research for the John William Pope Center for higher Education Policy. He has a Bachelor of Arts from Carroll College. He was Vice President of the John Locke Foundation until 2003. He also served as a book review editor for The Freeman and has published numerous articles in The Freeman, The Free Market, Cato Journal, The Detroit News, Independent Review and Regulation. George has written 37 article and 8 book reviews.
Scholarly Source
Author’s name: Espenshade, Thomas J
Title of article: Admission Preferences for Minority Students, Athletes, and Legacies at Elite Universities.
Name of scholarly journal: Social Science Quarterly
Volume and number: Vol. 85 Issue 5, p1422-1446, 25p, 7 charts, 1 graph
Database name: Business Source Premier
Publisher of databases: EBSCO Host
Where you accessed database: TC3
Date of access: 24 February 2009
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Author’s Argument/claim: Legacy admissions are a growing issue among collages and institutions with a major role playing factors being a good athlete. Also the different races have also been examined and their acceptance into institutions.
Evidence: By 1997, in fact, being a recruited athlete mattered more than any other type of admission preference we have examined. What admissions officers look at when admitting new students to the institution are athletic ability, musical talent, rural background, lower socioeconomic status, gender, alumni connections, leadership ability, geography, and unusual life experiences (Fetter, 1995; Freedman, 2003; Zwick, 2002).
Why is this a credible source: Espenshade, Thomas J is, “a professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research. His past research focuses on social demography, with a particular emphasis on population economics, mathematical demography, family and household demography, and contemporary immigration to the United States. His current research is focused on diversity in higher education. He served as Chair of the Department of Sociology at Princeton from 1999-2003 and as director of sociology's undergraduate program from 1998-2001. Espenshade received his B.A. degree in economics from The College of Wooster in 1965, a Master of Arts in Teaching in mathematics from Yale University in 1966, and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1972. Prior to joining the Princeton faculty in 1988, he held teaching or research positions at the University of California (Berkeley), Bowdoin College, Florida State University, The Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.), and Brown University.”
