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Matthew Coday wants to be sued, or at least to provoke debate on his campus about racial preferences at colleges. The Texas Tech senior loudly announced this month a new scholarship, which he is calling 'The United White Persons College Fund.' Mr. Coday, who is white, said his effort, which he said would give a $2,000 scholarship to one student each year, is a jab at the United Negro College Fund, which he argued discriminates against white students. Though he acknowledged that the UNCF does not exclude members of any group from its scholarships, he said that in practice the group is exclusive, since it supports historically black colleges. (While all of the private colleges that are members of UNCF are historically black, none bar white students and many have some white students enrolled.) Mr. Coday plans to mirror his scholarship program on the policies of the United Negro College Fund's programs: He said that no student would be excluded based on race, but that his mission was to support members of a certain group -- in this case, white students. 'If you can have an organization that can serve to better your racial group,' he said, 'then so can we.'
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