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...case arose at the Medical School of the University of California at Davis, which reserves 16 out of 100 places in each entering class for minority students. That quota system at Davis was challenged by Civil Engineer Allan Bakke, 36, who has degrees from Minnesota and Stanford, and scored in the 95th percentile on his entrance tests. Bakke, a somewhat mysterious figure who refuses to be interviewed or photographed, says through a lawyer only that he finds engineering "unsatisfying" and that he believes medicine would be "more rewarding...
...Harvard could illustrate how its systems of admissions differ from quota systems, he added...
William R. Fitzsimmons '67, director of admissions for the College, said yesterday that although Harvard-Radcliffe admissions has had good success with affirmative action programs, there has never been a quota system. The admissions, committee has relied on increased recruitment, Fitzsimons said and probably would not have to change its policy because of a Supreme Court ruling...
Bernard D. Davis '36, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology, criticized supporters of quota systems and suggested a new approach to problems of social equity to a group of 25 at North House last night...
...quota system "creates one set of problems while it solves another," Davis said. "A logical alternative would be to provide more equal rewards for different jobs, rather than to leave our rewards system untouched and seek group parity," Davis added...