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...about what personal stance to take, but have ended up more confused. Most people realize by now, for example, that the challenged U.C. Davis Medical School special admissions program goes beyond what is normally understood as affirmative action, but they question the charges that it amounts to a rigid quota system...
...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 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...
...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...
...state Supreme Court upheld the ruling that the special admissions program constitutes a racial quota system and violates the 14th amendment. In addition, when the regents conceded they could not prove Bakke would not have been admitted in the absence of the special program, the state supreme court ordered U.C. Davis admit him, reversing the trial court's ruling on that point...
...Soviets modified their proposal that U.S. planes armed with cruise missiles be counted against the MIRV quota...