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...nine black-robed Justices suddenly appeared from behind red velvet curtains and settled into their seats at the elevated bench. The stage was set for what could turn out to be the most important civil rights case in a generation, Regents of the University of California v. Allan Bakke...
Colvin could not help much. He focused his case simply on the interests of his client, Allan Bakke of Sunnyvale, Calif, a tall, blond engineer and father of two, who at 37 still harbors hopes of starting medical school. Bakke is largely a mystery to the world, for he has consistently refused requests for interviews. He earned two engineering degrees and fought as a Marine captain in Viet Nam, then decided to change careers. He started working as a hospital volunteer and taking science courses at night. In 1973 he applied to a dozen medical schools. By then...
...Department brief urged), or the court might rule that a limited state or federal law governed the case. As Justice William Brennan reminded Attorney Colvin, "Ordinarily we don't decide constitutional questions" if another, less sweeping ground is available. Another possible ruling-and one that could result in Allan Bakke's admission, at 38, to the freshman medical class at Davis next fall-would hold that racial quotas are not permissible, but that universities may use race as one factor in future admissions policy. That scenario was suggested from the bench by Justice Powell...
OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, people all over the country have been trying to sort out the issues and absorb the analyses in the controversial case of Regent of the University of California v. Allan Bakke. Many have debated with themselves about what personal stance to take, but have ended up more confused. Most people realize by now, for example, that the challenged U.C. Davis Medical School special admissions program goes beyond what is normally understood as affirmative action, but they question the charges that it amounts to a rigid quota system...
...various shades of pro-and anti-Bakke legal arguments. From the pro-Bakke side, they've been hit with two arguments, one reactionary and the other much more subtle. The reactionary argument (advanced by the B'Nai B'rith Society and Bakke himself, is that in rejecting Allan Bakke, a white man, while accepting "less qualified" blacks under a special "quota" system, U.C. Davis discriminated against Bakke on the basis of his race and thus violated his equal rights under the 14th amendment. The more subtle stance, (taken by the American Jewish Committee) is that the U.C. Davis program constituted...