From The Reporter:
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — University of California leaders weighed in on the U.S. Supreme Court case over the use of affirmative action in college admissions Monday, arguing that it’s necessary to consider race to ensure student diversity on selective campuses.
UC President Mark Yudof and 10 campus chancellors filed a “friend of the court” brief to the Supreme Court, which is scheduled to hear a challenge to the Univer-sity of Texas’ consideration of race in undergraduate admissions.
The university leaders point to UC’s struggles to create diverse student bodies in the 16 years since California voters banned affirmative action in public hiring, contracting and university admissions.
After the passage of Proposi-tion 209 in November 1996, the proportion of underrepresented minorities declined significantly at the system’s most competitive campuses, particularly UC Berkeley and UCLA, as well as its elite graduate schools, according to the brief.
“In a highly selective institution, implementing race-neutral policies leads to a substantial decline in the proportion of entering students who are African American, American Indian and Latino,” threatening its ability to train a diverse set of leaders, the administrators wrote in the brief.
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Just like OBUMMERS views, “we are looking for equality of “OUTCOME”, and not equality of “OPPORTUNITY” YOU OWE ME. My view is the outcome is the result of the input, if you don’t have the initiative to put the effort into qualifying for and getting accepted at a college education, you probably won’t have the initiative to put out the effort once you get into college. You can’t complain about the results of others who are doing better in life, because they put out the effort. What happens when people are accepted for college admission through reduced admission requirements, and then are incapable of performing the studies at that grade level? Do we then grade on a “curve”. How low should that curve be lowered before a college degree is nothing more than a piece of paper? (I believe we are very close to that point at the present) For too many years, we have been lowering minimal standards to make inclusion possible, and it has lowered the standards so low that a higher education is a joke anymore. Just like of public/union high schools, where remedial education is required to pass the minimum test scores on college entrance exams. The result is a country that is going down hill at light speed. Just like doing the limbo, “HOW LOW CAN WE GO??
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Will someone explain to these intellectual idiots, it is when we lowered the standards and implemented affirmative action to accommodate people of poorer education. This is when you can mark the downward slide of our country. Instead of helping these people raise their education level we lowered it for all. It is just pure human nature, that if you see someone getting special treatment that you would want the same treatment which is what our Constitution`s decrees. Affirmative action has hurt all of us a lot more than helped us. Now if you want to bring race into it by applying affirmative action, you are suggesting one race is superior to another. This is where the injustice of affirmative action hurts who it is suppose to help. Skin color has nothing to do with learning but a good work and study effort does. Remember GOD put us all here and has given us this earth equally with each one of us given the free will to succeed. Only through your own effort can you make it and let NO MAN hold you back from what our FATHER has given each of us. You can not eat excuses and JESUS said if a man does not work he does not eat but take care of the ones who truly can not that care of themselves!