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TIPTOEING ALONG THE FINE LINE THAT SEPARATES affirmative action from reverse discrimination is a delicate act. At Boalt Hall, the law school of the University of California at Berkeley, they thought they had it right with an admissions policy that since 1968 has aimed for an enrollment of 23% to 27% minority students. But last week, after a two-year investigation, the Department of Education announced that Berkeley had gone too far in accommodating minorities. The university denied any wrongdoing but said it would consider dropping ethnicity or race as a determining factor in selecting law school applicants from...
...prolonged investigation of Boalt Hall has worried universities already struggling to chart a path between the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlaws racial discrimination, and the 1978 Supreme Court decision in the case of white medical school applicant Allan Bakke, which bans reverse discrimination and racial quotas...
Even a piece of college furniture has a price tag, for folks with big hearts but small bank accounts. A check for $10,000 will buy a carrel in the refurbished University of California, Berkeley, law library at Boalt Hall, which will open in 1994. A Princeton University giver can get his or her name engraved on the back of a chapel pew for $5,000. At Spelman, $10,000 to $15,000 will pay for a decorative fountain. The University of Houston's College of Optometry sells cushioned seats and desks at $300 a pop for its continuing-education...
Tomorrow's demonstration is part of a nationwide protest by law school students. The movement was started three years ago at Boalt Hall, the Law School of the University of California at Berkeley, and 50 schools are expected to participate this year...
...They make life unpleasant for a while, but Icertainly don't think that [last year] they hadany impact on our continued efforts [to hireminorities]," said Boalt Hall Dean Jessie H.Choper. "No one's happy with the numbers, but Ithink it's going to be a process that will takesome time; one has to keep working...