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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...
...properly defined as a quota . . . It's quite clear that for some of the things that a medical school wishes to accomplish that the minority applicant may have qualities that are superior to those of his classmate. He may be far more likely to go back to [his] community to practice medicine where he's needed...
...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...
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...