Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...first sentence of your editorial, which states that the University of California Board of Regents "phased out affirmative acton 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...
...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...
...definition of diversity has changed over the years, and we want to be responsive to these changes," Marshall said. "Nationally, affirmative action has become more of a topic of legal and moral debate...