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...NAACP, have filed a lawsuit against the university system. The lawsuit alleges that current university admissions policies are discriminatory because advanced placement courses--classes which many minority students are unable to take by virtue of the high school they attended--figure in highly. At the very least, the Board of Regents must reexamine those admissions policies which are under attack...
...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...
While it is not clear yet which of these solutions, if any, is the best route towards a more diverse student body--what is clear is that the Board of Regents must do more to ensure that the U.C. campuses are representative of the state of California. If Davis appoints regents who are more diverse, then the debate over how to pursue a talented and diverse student body will be more balanced and fair...
...change in the make-up of the Board of Regents would give minority applicants advocates in the U.C. system and provide a welcome balance to the virulent conservatives like Regent Ward Connerly who spearheaded the anti-affirmative action effort. Current regents have been appointed by 16 years of Republican governors preceding Davis--in fact, former Governor Pete Wilson pushed strongly for the anti-affirmative action vote...
After giving them the cold shoulder, the U.C.s need to convince minority students that they are valuable assets to their universities. A little diversity in the Board of Regents will do much to further this goal...