YOURSAY 'One largely attracting a certain race, the other only accepting one race...'
'Why doesn't Dyana ask for Utar's closure?'
Gerard Lourdesamy: Umno supreme council member Razali Ibrahim, does Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Utar) have a policy to only accept Chinese applicants? Is it restricted to only the Chinese? Is Utar funded by the taxpayers?
Universiti Teknologi Mara's (UiTM) 100% bumiputera-only policy is unconstitutional because it offends Articles 8, 12 and 153 of the federal constitution.
A quota as envisaged in Article 153 does not mean a 100% reservation for a single race. Since UiTM is a public university incorporated by an Act of Parliament and funded by the taxpayers, such a discriminatory entry policy must stop.
A 70% bumiputera 30% non-bumiputera quota would be fair and just. It will also improve standards, quality and competition within the university and allow for greater interaction between the races, especially with bumiputera from the rural areas and East Malaysia.
That will contribute to national unity and understanding. But Umno will never agree because UiTM is Umno's production line for bumiputera graduates imbued with a superiority and entitlement complex with undying loyalty to the party.
Headhunter: Utar doesn't reject students based on their race. It's also privately funded. That alone makes it totally different from publicly-funded UiTM. Razali, how is it that you cannot understand the difference?
ACR: The issue is public funding of education. Affirmative action agendas for the bumiputera, like UiTM, are continuously funded through taxpayers' monies.
Utar, like MIC's MIED and AIMST are required to have a quota for bumiputera though these institutions are largely funded by the non-bumis through their respective community support groups and by students whose parents can afford the fees.
This is a perennial problem in this country where it appears that public monies are available only for certain groups. This discrimination has to end.
Black Mamba: Razali, you have just become infamous by opening your gap without thinking things through. Utar was set up by MCA, not DAP, to accommodate bright, displaced Chinese students who aren't allow entry to UiTM or other public universities.
UiTM practices a bumiputera-only policy while Utar admits all races who meet their education entry requirements, and it isn't free like UiTM.
On the other note, why should Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud challenge the DAP leaders? DAP isn't here to question Malay rights.
It's right that Dyana is seeking more national-type Chinese schools as the full-fledged kebangsaan schools offer mediocre education and poor discipline among its teachers.
Look at SJK Chung Shan, Bayan Lepas, Penang, half of its student population is non-Chinese and the bulk of that are Malays. They must be doing something right, isn't it?
Aries46: Razali is either ignorant of what goes on in his party or merely resorting to a white lie to counter Dyana's suggestions.
Malaysians are only too well aware of the racist policies of Umno-BN government and its public institutions including the intake policies of UiTM.
Comparing that to Utar is an insult to the multiracial MCA-founded institution as well as its brainchild our beloved first PM Tunku Abdul Rahman who publicly sneered and shunned the extremist polices of Umno Baru.
As an Umno supreme council member and deputy minister schooled in the ways of Umno’s narrow-minded race, religion, rights and privileges agenda for survival, Razali needs to put forward more valid and tangible arguments if he wishes to engage with towering Malays like Dyana who pride not only on their ethnicity but merit, openness and courage to embrace fair-minded policies that are for the common good of the nation, acceptable to the majority of its masses.
CiViC: Stupidity has no boundaries in Umno: first we had a professor who can't differentiate state government affairs with political party's internal affairs.
Now we have a 'supreme council' member who can't tell between a policy set for one race in UiTM and Utar being able to attract a certain race despite being open to all.
Anonymous #21828131: I am Indian and both my children studied at Utar. It’s sad to think that Razali can't differentiate the facts.
Malaysian 53: To Razali, a non-performing Umno Youth leader, all I can say is that Utar does not bar non-Chinese from joining. All you need are the grades.
I know Utar students personally, and have also been to UiTM on numerous occasions only to find no other races but only bumis.
Don't you think it is time to open up the intake, if at least for the sake of the Malay students who would only improve with increased competition, rather than let them end up as clerks and worse, working in Plus toll booths?
It’s time to ponder what is good for the students and stop playing politics, Razali.
Anonymous_1396163122 : How could such an ignorant man in Razali be a deputy minister not knowing that Utar is a private-owned university is open to all races since the day it opened its doors?
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