Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because Allan Bakke's suit provides an imperfect test case, the Court should instruct the U.C. Davis Medical School merely to reconsider Bakke's application for admission. The justices should tread confidently but lightly, however, and produce a unified majority opinion that supports affirmative action and compensatory programs for the disadvantaged, but still rules unconstitutional the use of strict quotas and ethnic background as factors in admissions decisions...
...question of admissions practices is difficult, as the ostensibly objective criteria of test scores and grades are never the sole determinants. The Court should not impinge on the flexibility of schools desiring a varied class make-up. Nevertheless, the use of race as a factor in admissions circumvents what should be the true intent of affirmative action programs: helping disadvantaged individuals overcome environmental liabilities. Opening up compensatory programs to those individuals who no longer suffer the disadvantages of historic repression does little good for those who still do. Programs such as U.D. Davis Med School's quota system...
...defensive backfield, without the benefit of a single returning starter, has held up so far. But Columbia's quarterback couldn't throw well enough to provide a real test and UMass found it necessary to pass only four times...
...deny the relevance of race in admitting candidates does more than contradict that intention. It would threaten the admissions practices of thousands of institutions across the country, by implying the existence of some numerically fixed standard of merit, such as grades and test scores that cannot be affected by other factors. A standard of this kind would suggest, for instance, that geographical distribution and socioeconomic background cannot be used as criteria in admissions, that Harvard cannot accept a poor black applicant from Alabama over a rich white one from New York City if the latter has a numerically better academic...
...today's meet, look for Providence to be the overwhelming favorite: a Harvard victory would be unlikely here. UMass, however, should provide a surer test of the team's ability, and the result may well set the tone for the rest of the season...