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The '''Affirmative Action Bake Sale''' was an event organized by the [[Columbia College Conservative Club]] on [[February 5|February 5th]], [[2004]], mirroring [[:w:affirmative action bake sale|earlier affirmative action bake sales]] by Republican organizations at other campuses. (The first affirmative action bake sale occurred on the [[:w:UCLA|UCLA]] campus on [[February 3|February 3rd]], [[2003]], according to [[Wikipedia]], and has since been repeated at many campuses.<ref>http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/6708.html</ref>)

It was a 'cute' stunt,<ref>Left-wing stunts on campus are generally less cute and more on the scary side.</ref> characteristic of chronic right-wing provocation on campus, which initiated a wave of [[:w:moral panic|moral panic]] in everyone else. The club set up a stall selling baked goods at different prices to men and women of different races. The highest prices were charged for Asian men(?) and the lowest to black women (?). This was intended to highlight different treatment of different students by the [[Office of Undergraduate Admissions]] under the university's [[affirmative action]] policy.

The event resulted in a confrontation between students during which a student unaffiliated with C4 reportedly shouted "You don't deserve to be here!"<ref>References needed.</ref>

The incident was one of a number of which were cited as the cause for the [[Columbia University Concerned Students of Color Protest|Columbia University Concerned Students of Color Protest]] of Spring 2004.

== Bake sale price list ==
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|+ Bake Sale Price List<ref>[http://columbiaspectator.com/2004/02/06/bake-sale-prompts-debate-lerner "Bake Sale Prompts Debate In Lerner"], ''Columbia Spectator'', 2/6/04</ref>
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Identity Group'''
| '''Price'''
|-
| Jewish men
| $1.25
|-
| Asian men
| $1.25
|-
| White men
| $1.00
|-
| Black men
| $0.75
|-
| Hispanic men
| $0.75
|-
| White women
| $0.50
|-
| Black women
| $0.25
|-
| Hispanic women
| $0.25
|-
| Republican men
| $0.10
|-
| Republican women
| $0.05
|}

== References ==
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[[Category:Racism scandals]]