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==Proposed change in "smallest minority enrollments" paragraph==

==Proposed change in "smallest minority enrollments" paragraph==

I propose to change this paragraph to read:

I propose to change this paragraph to read:

:Ethnic diversity at UW-Madison is among the lowest in the Big Ten<ref>In the Big Ten schools, the U. S. News' [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc_campdiv_brief.php Campus Ethnic Diversity Index] ranges from 0.47 (Northwestern) down to 0.17 (Iowa), with Wisconsin-Madison third from the bottom at 0.22</ref> only 5.2% Asian-American, 3% Hispanic, 2.7% African and 0.6% Native American.

:Ethnic diversity at UW-Madison is among the lowest in the Big Ten<ref>In the Big Ten schools, the U. S. News' [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc_campdiv_brief.php Campus Ethnic Diversity Index] ranges from 0.47 (Northwestern) down to 0.17 (Iowa), with Wisconsin-Madison third from the bottom at 0.22</ref>, with the student composition comprising only 5.2% Asian-Americans, 3% Hispanics, 2.7% Africans and 0.6% Native Americans.

and then footnote "lowest in the Big Ten" with the details:

and then footnote "lowest in the Big Ten" with the details:

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I'll preserves the location in the article that Aschafly thinks it deserves. I think comparison among the Big Ten seems fair since they are all broadly comparable institutions. I think "among the lowest in the Big Ten" is fair since it's in the bottom three, and its score of 0.22 isn't very far from Iowa's 0.17. I don't think the use of the word "only" is appropriate without any rationale for what the percentages ''should'' be, but I'll leave it.  

I'll preserves the location in the article that Aschafly thinks it deserves. I think comparison among the Big Ten seems fair since they are all broadly comparable institutions. I think "among the lowest in the Big Ten" is fair since it's in the bottom three, and its score of 0.22 isn't very far from Iowa's 0.17. I don't think the use of the word "only" is appropriate without any rationale for what the percentages ''should'' be, but I'll leave it.  

I just don't think "has one of the smallest minority enrollments among major schools" is justified by the facts. "Among the lowest in the Big Ten" is as close as I can some to preserving Aschlafly's point without stretching the facts beyond the breaking point. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 11:55, 27 April 2007 (EDT)

I just don't think "has one of the smallest minority enrollments among major schools" is justified by the facts. "Among the lowest in the Big Ten" is as close as I can some to preserving Aschlafly's point without stretching the facts beyond the breaking point. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 11:55, 27 April 2007 (EDT)