Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan to save the beleaguered Budget Director. Now, with October's brisk breezes and brilliant hues, the man in the Oval Office seemed to emerge reinvigorated. Suddenly, Jimmy Carter was in motion again-launching initiatives, planning journeys, defending his programs, attacking their detractors. But motion does not always equal progress, and the President's whirling-dervish routine almost inevitably led to a number of stumbles, if not pratfalls...
While it is difficult to say at this stage whether such a move is feasible, Bell's statement shows that the government will do what it can to prevent the ERA from going down at the hands of woefully misguided equal rights opponents. The amendment might receive the three additional state ratifications it needs before the March 22, 1979 deadline, but, then again, it might not. Accordingly, an extension could be necessary. Because it is unclear whether the seven year limit was a part of the amendment per se, changing the time limit could conceivably be legitimate...
...subtle. The reactionary argument (advanced by the B'Nai B'rith Society and Bakke himself, is that in rejecting Allan Bakke, a white man, while accepting "less qualified" blacks under a special "quota" system, U.C. Davis discriminated against Bakke on the basis of his race and thus violated his equal rights under the 14th amendment. The more subtle stance, (taken by the American Jewish Committee) is that the U.C. Davis program constituted a "quota" system and that while affirmative action measures and guidelines for all disadvantaged groups should be continued, admissions "quotas" based solely on race should...
...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 like to see major advances toward equal opportunity attained. Nor is there really the danger that if the U.C. Davis case is not ruled unconstitutional that this will only be the beginning of a rash of "quota" systems. Most admissions officials don't feel comfortable in the least with the idea of quotas, and since the federal...
...refrain from any admissions processes that might continue to discourage minorities. This means more than showing no signs of discrimination; admissions committees are obliged to take positive and explicit action, as did the U.C. Davis admissions program, to ensure that even disadvantaged minorities will know that, if qualified, the equal opportunity to benefit from higher education is open to them...