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Student offers ‘white scholarship’
Web-posted April 16, 2004
Sadie Gurman
Staff Writer
Although he’s not certain who will win, sophomore Colin Kerr already knows one thing about the recipient of his $200 scholarship: He or she will be white.
“No one realizes the injustice of a race-based scholarship until it’s offered to a white student,” he said. “We want people to question the nature of a scholarship being offered based on race.”
Money from private donors helped Kerr fund his “white scholarship,” which asks applicants to write a 500-word essay explaining how their “European-American heritage affects ... perception of minority race-based scholarships.”
This approach, Kerr said, attempts to show students that any scholarship based solely on race creates a double-standard.
$200 for my school, Jack
Web-posted April 16, 2004
Sadie Gurman
Staff Writer
Although he’s not certain who will win, sophomore Colin Kerr already knows one thing about the recipient of his $200 scholarship: He or she will be white.
“No one realizes the injustice of a race-based scholarship until it’s offered to a white student,” he said. “We want people to question the nature of a scholarship being offered based on race.”
Money from private donors helped Kerr fund his “white scholarship,” which asks applicants to write a 500-word essay explaining how their “European-American heritage affects ... perception of minority race-based scholarships.”
This approach, Kerr said, attempts to show students that any scholarship based solely on race creates a double-standard.
$200 for my school, Jack
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