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To: Alighieri who wrote (158169)	1/16/2003 12:56:34 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1586821

According to the Steve's source its not a hard quota but rather bonus points for skin color, and the bonus points for being black are more then the points you get for a perfect SAT score. The fact that the percentage of people in a specific law school that are black is lower then the percentage of the national population that is black, is not evidence that blacks are being discriminated against. In fact it is not even evidence that there has not been discrimination in favor of blacks at that law school. Unless the article is totally off the mark about the point system there is discrimination in favor of blacks and thus against all other racial groups or at least those that do not also get special points or who get a lot less points, at the University. Tim

To: Alighieri who wrote (158169)	1/16/2003 1:00:39 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1586821

``The president believes that quotas and racial preferences do not serve to lift up our country and to help the average American,'' I don't know all the facts, so I take no position until I understand more...but I listened to the dean of the Michigan school of law being interviewed this morning...he said that Bush is wrong to say that there are quotas and that the school has no quotas. He said that the school of law's distribution of admissions for blacks has been well below (the highest admission distribution for a single year was 9%, with other years being at 5,6, and 7%) the national average of black population (13%) distribution under the current admission practices. Al, the conservatives don't like affirmative action period. They don't care what the details are. Ridding the country of affirmative action is just one more agenda item on the conservative revolution. Today, he's going off on medicare. My sense is the WH is concerned about the direction the polls are taking and is starting to show its true face. It now is working to get these items changed thru Congressional action while they still have control of Congress. I continue to think these are very dangerous times for this country. ted

To: Alighieri who wrote (158169)	1/16/2003 1:02:43 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586821

He said that the school of law's distribution of admissions for blacks has been well below (the highest admission distribution for a single year was 9%, with other years being at 5,6, and 7%) the national average of black population (13%) distribution under the current admission practices. Well, that's just great. So let's just give blacks extra points against the admission requirements so we can get those numbers right in line. If we give 'em 20 points (out of a hundred, and nearly twice what a perfect admission score would give them), that ought to do it. If not, we'll just give them a few more. It doesn't matter if the admitted students just happen to be dumb or unwilling to work hard. Let's just get them in here.