Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stigmatizing in the sense that the old quota against Jews was stigmatizing...
Justice Stewart: Do you agree that there was a quota of 84 [whites...
...doctor shortage has become a major concern to the American people But instead of blaming the low number of openings in medical schools, people are condemning the minority quota system, probably the only fair policy to have hit American medical education in the past decade...
...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 curiae brief on the case with the Supreme Court, argue that it is important not to rule against the U.C. Davis program as a quota system because it is still early enough in the affirmative action game so that individual admissions committees deserve some elbow room in working out their own programs. At the more emotional level, a number of black politicians and spokesmen for civil rights groups have stressed the crucial symbolic impact...
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 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...