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...November 1994, when the regents were debating affirmative action policy at UCSF, Regent del Junco stated emphatically that in his thirty-five years of practice in East Los Angeles he had treated all emergency room patients equally, regardless of their race. He believed that the same standard fairness should apply to college applicants. Hear, hear. KEVIN A. SHAPIRO '99 Feb. 17, 1999 The writer is the former editor of the Salient. True Advising Fosters Academic Community To the editors...
...first sentence of your editorial, which states that the University of California Board of Regents "phased out affirmative action in 1997 after the passing of Proposition 209," is factually incorrect. The Regents voted to end affirmative action in 1995, two years before the passage of Prop. 209 and began to phase out affirmative action in the graduate schools the following year...
...affirmative action policy currently in place in California is indeed unfair. Our society is still dominated by racism and classism, thus tilting the ledger in favor of those at the top--often towards white males. During the affirmative action era in California, it was far from "absurd" that race played a significant role in admissions. Instead, the Board of Regents was trying to create campuses which represented the diversity of California while recognizing the educational disadvantages inherent in a poor socio-economic background...
...agree that one solution is to fix California's system of public secondary school education, but the state should also fix its system of higher education by re-implementing affirmative action. In our uneven society, an admissions policy based solely "on merit" is not possible. An admissions policy which seeks to create a level playing field for all is a reasonable goal. Affirmative action is a means towards this end. EDWARD B. COLBY...
Administrators argue that while dismissal might be considered lifetime imprisonment (but apparently with the slim possibility of parole a.k.a. readmission), expulsion is the equivalent of the death penalty, and they indicate their reluctance to take such final action. We appreciate the somberness with which they approach removing students for good, but again we ask, if not rape, what does it take? Moreover, devastating as it may be to lose one's status as a student of Harvard College, it is not equivalent to being sent to the gas chamber. Life will go on, just not with Harvard's stamp...