Talk:Merit Scholarships

I think it's important to mention the crazy scholarships that liberals give out! Like the left-handed ones or the David Letterman/Ayn Rand ones!

Or would it necessitate a "Liberal scholarships" and "Need based scholarships" page cross-referenced with this page?

-MadShell 11:06, 14 December 2009 (EST)

actually there are left handed conservatives and Ayn Rand is very anti-liberal (and this is not a scholarship). I rephrased the article to reflect the actual debate that is going on. Left-handed and family-name scholarships exist but are not merit based. The Letterman award required high quality work in "written work, research, audio, video, graphics and film." RJJensen 11:12, 14 December 2009 (EST)

Granted, but the idea of a "left handedness" scholarship is fairly liberal, based off of a genetic predisposition rather than actual work. For a more serious example, there are the scholarships from LGBT groups (who claim it's all genetic) and other racist selectionist associations that are essentially "affirmative action."

And my original reference to Ayn Rand (not here, but the page) was that she was atheistic. And wouldn't "high quality" work determined by a liberals be "very liberal?!" -MadShell 11:29, 14 December 2009 (EST)

the "left handed" scholarship at an obscure little college (like the family scholarships at Harvard) were donated by alumni, probably pretty conservative ones; they were NOT designed by the college officials. Followers of Ayn Rand hate liberals more than Conservapedia does. The media people have a very clear idea of quality in say a video or audio production, and I believe Fox has the same standards as CBS. In this case, Letterman endowed a scholarship at his alma mater for people who excel in his profession, which is the sort of thing rich conservatives also do.RJJensen 16:32, 14 December 2009 (EST)