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When Jimmy Quach '97 went home last month, he returned to his alma mater, San Francisco's Lowell High, a public magnet school known for its racial quota system...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Harvard Recruits Asian Students | 11/26/1996 | See Source »

...organizations. To assume that qualified minorities cannot be found is ridiculous, especially when racial and ethnic minorities constitute a large proportion of the U.S. population. The diversity of backgrounds and interests that minorities bring to an organization outweigh any disadvantage of affirmative action. Besides, affirmative action is not a quota system, and so there are no rules that minorities must comprise a certain proportion. Instead, affirmative action ensures that minorities actually reach the top and are able to make decisions for organizations. Although I wish that affirmative action was not needed, the Texaco Inc. settlement illustrates that organizations need minorities...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Smashing the Glass Ceiling | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...problem is that Republicans tend to be white men, and Clinton's informal quota system makes positions for white males scarce. If the President needs to depart from his racial and gender formula to accommodate some Republicans in his government, he should feel free to do so. The gain is worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRING THE REPUBLICANS IN | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

Although Columbus made good on his word to send back many slaves, most of the Arawaks perished on the transatlantic journey or soon after their arrival in Spain. So he threw his energy into collecting gold. In Haiti, he ordered that all Indians over age 14 surrender a quota of gold every three months. The quota was unattainable--gold did not exist in the quantities that Columbus imagined. Nevertheless, Indians who did not meet the quota had their hands cut off and bled to death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CELEBRATING GENOCIDE | 10/12/1996 | See Source »

...efforts to diversify are good, as long as there is not an attitude that they have to fill a quota," said Devi Sengupta '98, co-president of the MSA. "But I feel that their efforts are genuine...

Author: By Peggy S. Chen, | Title: U.C. Makes Pitch for Diversity | 9/27/1996 | See Source »

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