Word: actioner
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...such move is a proposal by Regent Bill Bagley to overturn the anti-affirmative action decision. Another proposal would require that the top four percent of students from each high school in California be admitted to the U.C. system...
...current anti-affirmative action policy, makes the U.C. system unattractive to top minority applicants, especially as big-name schools in the east actively recruit them. Given this current atmosphere, it is no wonder that, as admissions of minority students have plummeted, so has the percentage of minorities enrolling in the U.C. system...
...change in the make-up of the Board of Regents would give minority applicants advocates in the U.C. system and provide a welcome balance to the virulent conservatives like Regent Ward Connerly who spearheaded the anti-affirmative action effort. Current regents have been appointed by 16 years of Republican governors preceding Davis--in fact, former Governor Pete Wilson pushed strongly for the anti-affirmative action vote...
Whether or not affirmative action is on its way out for good is one debate. But no one will ever doubt the effect of a good image. Davis should take the ASUC's advice and make the Board of Regents a model in diversity to which the Universities it oversees can aspire...
...first action of dictators like Hitler and Stalin, upon seizing power, was to confiscate personal arms," Heston said...