Word: asare
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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Although his parents were poorly educated immigrants who spoke only Yiddish at home, Asar Stepak, 28, worked hard to learn English, and earned a 3.5 grade average at New York University. He applied for admission to the Rutgers College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. After Rutgers turned him down, Stepak sued in both state and federal court. His charge: Rutgers was giving blacks and other minorities an unconstitutional advantage in the admissions process, a charge that the school denies...
...University of California at Davis is before the U.S. Supreme Court. Bakke, who is white, charges that he was unconstitutionally discriminated against when he applied for medical school, because Davis reserved 16 places in its entering class for racial-minority students. While Bakke sweats out the decision, Asar Stepak is waiting too. And his is just one of a growing number of reverse-discrimination cases that have been slowed or stalled in the lower courts as judges and contending parties await the Supreme Court's Bakke ruling, now expected before the summer recess...
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