Word: conscious
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...Review staff voted Wednesday to adopt a "race-conscious" affirmative action policy, a policy that would actively take the race of candidates for the Review staff into account when selecting members. The staff postponed a decision on which specific policy it would adopt until December 2, but the only "race conscious" policy that has been formally submitted to the staff is the Review committee's proposal...
Michael R. Doyen, a member of the Review's affirmative action committee, said last week that a group of faculty members who discussed a new race-conscious plan offered by the Review gave the plan "mixed reviews." He added, "People are split on this the same way as in the past...
Yesterday's vote "doesn't really get us any further than last year," Helm said, adding that the vote was necessary because about half of the Review staff is new and some members thought majority support for a race conscious plan no longer existed...
...only race-conscious plan formally proposed--introduced by the Review's affirmative action committee--would allow students to be selected for membership on the basis of publishable "notes," Law Review articles students submit, as well as through the current selection process based on either grades or a writing competition. The plan would also allow students seeking admission through the current procedure to submit an essay for the membership committee's consideration on "economic, societal or education obstacles" they have overcome...
Howell Jackson, a Review editor who opposed adopting a race-conscious plan, said yesterday that he was considering introducing a proposal for an affirmative action plan favoring minority students in the selection process only when they compete for membership by submitting a note to the review...