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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They also don't quite know what to make of the various shades of pro-and anti-Bakke legal arguments. From the pro-Bakke side, they've been hit with two arguments, one reactionary and the other much more subtle. The reactionary argument (advanced by the B'Nai B'rith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Considering Bakke | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

From the anti-Bakke side, the undecided or unsure have also heard two lines, both putting the U.C. Davis plan within the context of the larger struggle for affirmative action, but on two different emotional levels. At the legalistic level, advocates like Daniel Steiner '54, who filed Harvard's amicus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Considering Bakke | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

While many of the people following the case have been able to come to a conclusion about where they stand, a disturbing number still seem to be basing their positions on misinformed, and in some cases pernicious, assumptions. Most of those misguided preconceptions revolve not around the Bakke case specifically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Considering Bakke | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

FIRST THERE ARE A NUMBER of things that affirmative action is not. It is not quotas. Rather, affirmative action has involved setting "goals" and "timetables," which are estimates of the number of students a university would like to see admitted under affirmative action, or the time within which they would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Considering Bakke | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

NOW TO REVIEW WHAT affirmative action was intended to, and should, mean. Perhaps the most helpful explanation of its purpose is what can be called the "overcoming-discouragement" premise. This is based on the understanding that systematic discrimination against minorities in America's institutions of higher learning until the recent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Considering Bakke | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

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