... create a school or workplace that strives to recruit people based on these characteristics. The Civil Service Reform Act of 1976 did nothing but create a new minority: the white male. Employers and educational institutions still do discriminate on the basis of race and sex. If a person happens to be a ... just look at the scholarships offered by Bowling Green State University. An entering freshman that is a non-minority student must have at least a 27 on their SAT and a 3.5 GPA to be considered for any type of scholarship. In contrast, a minority with only a 3.0 GPA and a 21 on their ACT ...

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... transformation was accomplished through a series of Orwellian distortions of the law, none of which has ever been ratified by the Congress."(Lund) In the years since, affirmative action in its new form has extended its reach to include groups not historically considered disadvantaged, at least in the same since that blacks were. What origonally was linked as a short term leg up ... very best black applicants a range of scholarships and other monies, soak up a huge portion of the relatively few blacks who score in the top range of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The unprepared and un...

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... to call federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, after the state's governor, George Wallace forcibly barred black children from entering white school. The government responded to those incidents by passing new laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Briggs, p.195). The Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibits any ... approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimina...

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... Rights Act of 1964. This amendment was the guidance that American leaders needed to change the policies under which schools, business and local state and federal government adopted a new era and developed new strategies in which "business" was conducted. In 1972 the Equal Employment Opportunity Act was implemented. Hiring and promotion of minorities has shown tremendous increase since this act was ... recognized and the courts ruled unconstitutional to use a quota system. This ruling still provided a good opportunity to attract a diverse student body, but many minorities were not making...

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... present jobs; 73% have never suffered so in other places of employment; and 83% say they were never turned down for a job in favor of a man. These are from a 1992 New York Times Women's Survey (Quigly). In California, the issue of affirmative action is one of the most controversial. Asian students at the University of California's Berkley campus were felt to ... become almost 40% of the county, and lowered for blacks who represent 12% of the population and have 30% of the county jobs (Bresler). Due to this inequality of representation, new tensions have risen between the two groups. Pre...

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... ' minorities with GPAs above 2.8 (a dismal B minus) or SATs over 830, well below the national average for all who took the test. Asians and whites, by contrast, needed a 3.8 GPA or an SAT above 1,200 to have better than 90% chance of admission [in 1996]" (Thernstrom). In 1997, the UCLA School of Medicine had over 5,000 applicants for only 200 seats. Out of ... bar state and local governments from using race in hiring, contracting and school admissions (Cohen). Before this referendum makes it to the ballot, Florida's governor Jeb Bush is pushing for "new, 'race-blind' entrance criteria to...

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... in admissions policies. In 1999 Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida put an end to affirmative action in his state's university admissions. In May of this year, Gov. Jeb Bush adopted a new law stating that school districts will no longer be able to use race as a factor in deciding which students can participate in gifted programs. His said it was "wrong to ... race. If you have lower standards for one group compared to another, you end up with lower results." A way out of the recent epidemic of low academic achievement and noncompetitive SAT scores due to affirmative action admissions policies is t...

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... preferential treatment and insults anyone who is beneficiary of this practice" (Jenkins, 1999, 178). Affirmative action in educational facilities promotes a feeling a reverse discrimination in which whites and Asians with higher SAT scores and grades are denied an education at a prestigious school to fulfill a quota of minorities (Williams, 1997, 173). Affirmative action is not only disappointing in creating equality in schools, it ... of affirmative action over thirty years ago, not much progress has been made. Perhaps the best solution to this dilemma is to abolish the policy of affir...

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... equally qualified candidates. This is the ideal situation and most common throughout the United States. Selection among comparably qualified candidates is as follows: a minority student with an 1100 on their SAT's compared to a white student who scored a 1120 is hardly a significant amount. Predictions of the general population with scores comparable in this range will not be affected by such trivial differences ... : Cornell University Press 1991. Forman Jr., J. Saving Affirmative Action. Academic Search Premier. Nation, 12/9/91, Vol. 253 Issue 20, p746, 2p Reverse Discrimination of whi...

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... affirmative action at Berkeley because it was mainly helping middle class minorities, who had equivalent or similar resources of[to] a middle class white student, get into the university with lower SAT scores. He feels this process is unfair. He argues that Blacks have made such a great advancement since the 1960's that the majority of African-Americans are not disadvantaged anymore. Therefore ... be redesigned so that a broad coalition can support them- (Wilson). Wilson argues that there is a better way to open opportunity for minorities. He calls it, "affirmative opportunity."" Wilson...

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