Comment Regarding Voting Turnout Problem

This is a response to an article titled "What's The Problem With Voting?" on a blog called Politically Texas.  This article talks about the recent statistics regarding the relatively low voting turnouts in Texas.  The author says that voting turnout should not be ignored and that something should be done about it.  One particular detail pointed out is that most of the Texas voting eligibility turnout is particularly filled with many "uneducated voters."  The author continues to solve this problem by suggesting a quick and easy political class that could be taken so that many of those who are uneducated can then be educated by what they are actually voting for.  She also points out that it would not just be a class to be taken for fun, but could also be as a sort of college credit course that could give you certain numbers of hours and become educated at the same time, knocking out two birds with one stone.

I particularly like this idea but would argue that turnout for coming to even a FREE class about voting is highly unlikely when going out to cast a single vote is already low in the beginning.  You could make it as interesting as possible but unless this turns into a required coarse to enroll in before you turn 18 as in high school, I won't be positively sure that this would create as great a turnout as other simplistic ideas as making voter registration easier.

All in all I think this was a very well informative post with many great ideas that could greatly increase voter turnout in Texas which we are in dire need of increasing.  I hope there are many more people who agrees as I do and will finally create an easier system for voting and overall increase the voter distribution in Texas.

Race-Based Admissions

"Getting into UT may be one of the most life fulfilling objectives," says a wise old man known as my father.  Though that was before I even came into high school.  Admissions for top notch Universities like the University of Texas at Austen has changed since that time.  Due to an extreme increase of students per a year, policy makers soon had to change this by lowering the number of admissions each year as more and more students start applying - but that's only what we know on the outside.  Little did we know that beneath the sheets underground detective James Bond style, UT has also been accepting applications of individuals predominantly on race.  Although that may not be as juicy as some may have wanted, but it has a very interesting case, such as the recent Supreme Court case: Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin.  

Abigail Fisher is a white student who graduated outside the top 10 percent of her high school class whom was denied entry into UT-Austin in 2008.  She claimed that students with lower test scores and less extracurricular involvement were admitted to UT-Austin over her because of their race, and therefore proceeded to sue the university.  In her argument, she states that UT-Austin's admissions policy violates the 14th Amendment's Equal Protecting Clause and federal civil rights statutes because it considers a persons race during the process of accepting applications.  In the university's defense, they claim that this is all part of creating a university with "compelling interest in achieving a diverse student body," in which we all see as complete B.S.  

Even though a more diverse student body would make the overall university sound less racial, it can also be seen as being more racial then what they are trying to sweep away from.  It is a never-ending circle of hopeless hope as anyone tries to venture down the steep hole that is racism.  Racism has been a controversial topic for many decades now and  will keep going for as long as we stay segregated.  Turning to the government and asking for help will only "fuel the fire" and create more hate. So the best thing to do now would be to avoid any type of segregation that has anything to do with race.  Base admission rates predominantly on class rank/GPA and avoid compelling interests ideas that have nothing to do with anything.