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That does not mean that they go un-buffeted, especially when caught in a political whirlwind like the Bakke case, brought by Allan Bakke, applicant to a California medical school who successfully argued he had been excluded in favor of less qualified blacks. In an early draft of a brief stating the Government's position on that "reverse discrimination" case, McCree came down in favor of affirmative action, but explicitly against quotas. After loud protests from black leaders and some Cabinet officers, including HEW Secretary Joseph Califano, McCree and Assistant U.S. Attorney General Drew Days, who is also black...
Hispanic leaders were upset by recent announcements of more stringent entrance requirements for the University of California. They also fear that the Supreme Court's decision in the Allan Bakke case will work against their admission to U.S. universities. Meanwhile, chicanos deeply resent the success of black colleges and universities in getting federal aid. Says Los Angeles School Board Member Julian Nava: "There are 120 black [U.S.] colleges and universities receiving multimillion-dollar subsidies from Congress, but there isn't a single, goddamned Mexican-American institution of higher education." Actually, there are five-all small, struggling colleges...
...first day of school for the balding, 38-year-old engineer, and campus police had to escort him to classes at the University of California Medical School at Davis. "I'm very happy to be here," said Allan Bakke, enrolled after the U.S. Supreme Court's historic ruling last June invalidating the school's preferential admissions program. Others were not nearly so delighted by his presence. As Bakke arrived, demonstrators shouted, "Affirmative action we demand; unite to smash the Bakke plan!" but the student kept his cool. After a three-hour lecture in molecular and cellular biology...
...members of the University are eligible to vie for positions on the three teams that represent Harvard in chess tournaments, Allan Smith '80 president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chess Club, said...
Jeff Mayersohn '73 and Allan Mui, a special student at Harvard, are supporters of the Spartacus Youth League (SYL), a revolutionary Trotskyist organization. The SYL has formed a group of students and others that plans a protest at 9:45 a.m. today outside Huntington's class at Sever Hall...