LOGAN, Utah - To dramataize their opposition to minority scholarship, Utah State University College Republicans have created a $100 "diversity scholarship" for minority members who write a 50-word essay on whether reverse discrimination exists. "We're essentially mocking the current system as it is now, " said USU College Republicans spokesman Jason Schane, 19, of Layton. University administrators say they don't have a problem with the College Republicans' stunt because students have the right to free speech. About a dozen ethnic minority students have expressed interest in the scholarship said the group's president, Spencer Taylor, 24, of Logan. "But we received a lot of flak," he said. "A lot of students called us racist." Moises Diaz, directory of Utah State's Multicultural Student Services, said the students are "oversimplifying a complicated issue." Taylor said he and other Utah State College Republicans believe scholarships should be awarded based on students' socioeconomic status or merit - not on race. this article taken from the Daily Utah Chronicle on January 24, 2006, credit: the Associated Press