... Brothers and Big Sisters charity. Ms. Hopwood was also a single mother to a child who was born with the birth defect Cerebral Palsy. Her grades were also outstanding. She boasted a 3.8 grade point average and a high Law School Aptitude Test score. The only thing going against Cheryl Hopwood was that she was white. She was denied admission. Four minorities, including one black and three Mexican ... whites with equally scores were admitted. UCLA School of Medicine accepted twenty-seven blacks while admitting no whites or Asians with GPA's of 3.24 or below and Medical College Admissions Te...

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... minorities. In July of 1995 there was a decision made by the Board of Regents of the University of California to end race and gender-based preferences in admissions (240). Five months later, Proposition 209 was passed which is a state constitutional amendment that brought the exclusion of the use of race and gender-based decision-making in public institutions (240). These laws caused a ... debate over affirmative action, which leads us to the question: Should the UC's race-based affirmative action admissions policies be reinstated? The response I have for this ongoing debate is that I t...

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... , but in actuality if it was not for it these people would have nothing. Julie A. Mertus supports the need for opportunities given to women in the work force. In the work force today many women are overlooked and pushed aside because of their gender. Many of the big wigs in businesses today feel that a woman is! inferior to a man's intelligence of work skill trades. A woman ... do almost anything to have a chance for their dreams to become a reality, but because of their race or gender this is an unachievable task. Affirmative action allows the task to happen. It does not give them the d...

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... formally. Fairness, it assumes, requires treating everyone the same allowing everyone to enter the competition for a position, and evaluating each person's results the same way. If everyone takes the same test, and every applicants test is evaluated in the same manner, then the assessment is fair. So affirmative action is unfair because it takes race and gender into account; and thus evaluates some test results differently. A racial premise of this ... fairness challenge to affirmative action is the assumption that tests afford opportunity to demonstrate ... ...

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... (Bundy 9-15-2000). Alan Bakke, a white man turned down for admission to the Medical School at The University of California, claimed his rights were violated when he did not receive an opening even though his grades and test scores were higher than the minorities (9-15-2000). "The Justice Department contended that applying such standards constituted reverse discrimination against white males" (Ashmore ... 311). Affirmative action should not admit a minority based on color or gender but rather on test standards. "Although rarely acknowledged, it was no less insulting to ... be forced to a...

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... 1978 ruled numerical goals and quotas regarding ethnicity and gender illegal . In 1995 the Congressional Research Service turned up 160 laws and regulations one third of which are still enforced laws setting numerical goals and quotas. In 1994 the Los Angeles Fire Department refused five thousand white men from taking their qualifying test because the department had not yet met its minority and ... gender hiring goals . If a house or a building is on fire, the firefighters" gender or ethnic background should not play a role in comparison with their ability to ... save people's lives. T...

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... less likely to assume that he or she was hired solely on race or gender"(1998). By making this information available within the organization, it would help remove the pressures from the employee and co-worker regarding the hiring practices. This could further help the organization in the area of productivity, public relations within the community, and morale. By increasing morale, you maybe able to retain more ... fact, white men fell second to white women being hired (Brune). The program in question is Washington State's "plus three" program, according to Tom Brune of the Seattle Times,...

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... affirmative action to ensure that greater opportunity for minorities did not come at the expense of the majority. Allan Blake, a white medical school applicant, claimed that he had been discriminated against by the University of California's admissions program. The school twice had rejected him, while several minority students with test scores that were significantly lower than his had been admitted. Bakke charged ... that he had been rejected only because he was white. People of all throughout the country protested Bakke's claim of reverse discrimination. It ... exorcised his right to v...

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... should not give an unfair advantage to equally qualified students or applicants simply because of their race or gender. The only viable way to create a truly equitable society is to expand programs that give assistance to the economically disadvantaged. Though these measures, the lower-class, which has traditionally been composed of a large percentage of minorities, will be able to ... will lead to greater diversity, which from a social and biological standpoint can be beneficial. However, this is rarely the case with affirmative action. According to the NIF booklet, a white firefighter...

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... called for minorities and women to be given special consideration in employment, education and contracting decisions. After the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, certain items became apparent. What seemed like the norm in business traditions, such as seniority status and aptitude test, prevented total equality in employment. Then, President Lyndon B. Johnson decided that some action should be ... where affirmative action is still in effect, according to research by UC Berkeley. The current census for all UC "s shows a drastic decline since proposition 209 went i...

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