Word: bans
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...diverse student body will be more balanced than fair" is, on the face of it, silly. Among the 16 appointed regents at the time of the decision against quotas, three were black, three Hispanic, and two Asian. Two of the "virulent conservatives" who pushed most strongly for the ban were Ward Connerly, an African-American, who argued that quotas were used as an excuse to avoid improving the quality of education in inner-city schools, and Tirso del Junco, M.D., a Hispanic...
...Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) passed a bill urging recently elected Democratic Governor Gray Davis to appoint pro-affirmative action regents to the Board of Regents. While this action alone would not reverse the ban on affirmative action, Amanda R. Canning, academic vice-president of the ASUC said, "I think that it is time that the regents experience some diversity themselves, not just ethnic diversity, but diversity of thought...
...ban on affirmative action is not likely to be overturned anytime soon, but a symbolic action that would make the U.C.s appear more welcoming to minority students is a step in the right direction...
...earlier, in the week's other landmark Internet ruling, a Philadelphia court blocked enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act, Congress's latest attempt to ban cybersmut. The law was intended, its backers say, to protect children from "teaser ads"--sexually explicit free samples that many porn sites offer before making users pay by credit card. But the court agreed with critics who said the measure would curb not only teasers but a wide range of less racy Internet speech directed at adults...
...correspondent William Dowell, "there's a fear that once you rekindle trading in ivory, you create an incentive for poachers." During the '80s, Africa lost half of its elephant population to poachers supplying ivory traders in Asia. The ivory market has been effectively starved by the 1989 U.N. ban -- but 60 tons of tusks may be just the aperitif needed to whet its appetite...