UFMA creates controversy to divide sisters in the system of quotas
Mon, Feb. 11, 2008
Ana Paula Caroline Ribeiro and Ana Fonseca were approved in the first step of vestibular Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA). Ana Paula, aged 19, to the course of law night, in the universe of quotas for blacks. Ana Caroline, 17, in the Course of Social Communication, but in the universal category, as his request to join in the quota was declined. The situation does not despertaria greatest interest were it not for one detail: Ana Paula and Ana Caroline are sisters.
During the process of selection of quota in Maranhao, were denied 343 requests for blacks. Caroline, who tries to the first entrance, is outraged said. "I always thought that the system of quotas was valid, but that the criteria were questionable, " he said. Ana Paula, in turn, think "was a mistake." The mother of the young people said that will come with a lawsuit against the university for moral damage and also appeal to the Public Ministry (MP) to ensure the two daughters the right to quotas.
The chairman of the Committee for the Validation of Assessments for Black, professor Carlos Benedito Rodrigues da Silva, said that there may have been errors in time to transcribe the result of the interview of suitors to enter the quota system. Yesterday, a little more than seven thousand candidates have evidence of the second stage of the vestibular UFMA. Of these, 1.2 thousand were in quotas for Afro.

Translated from http://br.noticias.yahoo.com/s/11022008/25/manchetes-ufma-cria-polemica-dividir-irmas-no-sistema-cotas.html