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...firestorm of protests erupted over the decision by University of California regents to eliminateaffirmative actionprograms in admissions and hiring, a move that is expected to influence debate over these programs in other parts of the country. While Rev. Jesse Jackson called on the Clinton Administration to block the action, citing federal funding for the university, Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women, called the UC decision "a threat to all Americans." A Time-CNN poll released Friday found 65 percent believe federal affirmative action programs should be changed rather than eliminated, while 47 percent said that the system...
...rests on an assumption of black inferiority." This, notes Ted Shaw, the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in the Jenkins case, "is probably the first time a Supreme Court Justice has questioned the reasoning in Brown." That it came from a black, says Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., "makes me want to throw...
...head of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York. "If it does turn out that for some people, there is a genetic or hormonal component, the cry will then arise to take care of that." Indeed, the cry is already rising. The Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, president of the Traditional Values Coalition in Anaheim, California, says that if a biological cause of homosexuality is found, then "we would have to come up with some reparative therapy to correct that genetic defect...
...Rev. L. Nelson Foxx, rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in Area Four, agrees. "If you say that you have 30 to 35 percent minority representation in this city, then every department should reflect that, not just the lower echelons," he said. "It's sort of like an imposed glass ceiling...
...Rev. L. Nelson Foxx, rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in Area Four, agrees. Foxx believes that in small cities like Cambridge, truly objective hiring is an elusive goal...