Suit over student program settled - student accepted to journalism program, until race revealed

Suit over student program settled
Journalism program agrees to adopt a race-neutral policy

BY TOM CAMPBELL
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

Feb 15, 2007

Parents of a Chesterfield County student and sponsors of a summer journalism program yesterday settled a lawsuit filed after the student was excluded in 2006 because she is white.

Virginia Commonwealth University, the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund and the Richmond Times-Dispatch have agreed to operate the annual Urban Journalism Workshop, beginning this year, without regard to the race of the high-school students who apply.

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VCU agreed in the settlement to pay $25,000 to the white student, Emily Smith, 16, a junior at Monacan High School, and to admit her to the 2007 Urban Journalism Workshop.

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Emily Smith applied for the program in March, and in April she received an e-mail message that she had been accepted. But later in April, according to the complaint, a VCU associate professor phoned her and asked her what her race was. The suit said that when Emily answered, the professor told Emily that she could not take part in the workshop because of her race.

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Since the late 1960s, Dow Jones has helped pay for similar workshops around the country for minority high-school students. The Richmond workshop began in 1984 as an outreach program to interest minority students in journalism as a career.

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Just because you're white, then that means you are advantaged. Hell no!!