Word: lowrey
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Both Bakke and the Regents agreed to a limited trial, with Dr. George H. Lowrey, chairman of the U.C. Davis admissions committee and associate dean of student affairs, providing the only testimony. State and federal appellate courts can decide the case only on the basis of this limited trial record...
Others argue, as Lowrey did before the California trial court, that "there would be few, if any Black students and few Mexican-Americans, Indians or Orientals from disadvantaged backgrounds in the Davis Medical School, or any other medical school, if the special admissions program and similar programs at other schools did not exist...
...Davis admissions record prior to establishing the special program supports Lowrey's testimony. The Medical School opened in 1968, and during the two years in which the school had no special program, only three minority students--two blacks and one chicano--were admitted...
...time of his first application--may have played some role in his rejection. As Lowrey wrote in reply to a letter from Bakke in 1971, two years before he actually applied, "when an applicant is over 30, his age is a serious factor which must be seriously considered...
...addition, Peter Storandt, an assistant to Lowrey at the time of Bakke's second rejection, encouraged Bakke to file suit against U.C. Davis, by reinforcing Bakke's belief that the university passed him up for less qualified students...