brojack@no-spam (BroJack) wrote in message news:<3420151c151ce50d220f069f93bf09b6@no-spam>...
> And dumbed-down marches onward.
>
> BroJack
> ________
>
> University of Texas starts work on new admissions policies
>
> Sung Park AMERICAN-STATESMAN
>
> By Jim Vertuno
>
> ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
> Monday, June 23, 2003
>
> AUSTIN ? The University of Texas will draft new affirmative action
> admissions policies that include race as a factor as allowed by
> Monday's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, school President Larry
> Faulkner said Monday.
>
> Any new policy for undergraduate admissions would have to work within
> the confines of the state law that entitles Texas high school students
> who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class enrollment in a
> state university.
>
> Monday's ruling ends the rule of the so-called "Hopwood" decisions by
> federal courts and former state Attorney General Dan Morales that
> prohibited race being used as a factor in admissions as well as
> scholarship and financial aid, Faulkner said.
>
> "It gets to the heart of what we try to accomplish as an institution,"
> Faulkner said. "All university leaders in the United States feel
> keenly their responsibility to educate the leadership of the nation.
> That leadership will come from all population sectors. It's important
> for us to have strong representation here of students from all sectors
> of society."
>
> The earliest any changes could effect enrollment would be the 2004
> fall freshman class. The top 10 percent rule will dominate about 70
> percent of that class, leaving only about 30 percent to fall under any
> new race-included admissions policy.
>
> In two separate rulings Monday, the court approved a program used at
> the University of Michigan law school that gives race a role in the
> admissions decision-making process. It struck down a separate point
> system used by the university to give minority preference in
> undergraduate admissions, but that ruling did not go as far as
> opponents of affirmative action had wanted.
>
> UT had previously tried to get the Supreme Court to overturn the
> "Hopwood" rulings and was interested in how it ruled on the Michigan
> cases.
>
> Minority state lawmakers and advocacy groups hailed the rulings.
>
> "Today's decision is great news for students of color," said Rep.
> Garnet Coleman, D-Houston. "It affirms that the doors of higher
> education should be open to diversity and opportunity should exist for
> all."
>
> Nina Perales, an attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and
> Education Fund, called on all Texas universities to renew affirmative
> action programs.
>
> "They create a stronger, more excellent student body," Perales said.
> "Affirmative action is the key to Latino educational advancement."
>
> The Hopwood decisions stemmed from a lawsuit filed against the
> University of Texas law school admissions policies that considered
> race. The top 10 percent rule was created in 1997 to boost minority
> enrollment without specific race-based policies.
>
> Faulkner said the 10 percent law has been successful in some areas,
> bad for universities in others.
>
> Students who might never have considered going to college now think
> about it because they know they can get it in, he said. But schools
> also want to be able to choose some of their students with varying
> criteria.
>
> "It's simply unhealthy for a whole class to be admitted on one
> criteria," Faulkner said.
>
> Some state lawmakers considered tweaking the 10 percent rule to place
> a cap on the percentage of a freshman class it would enroll. That idea
> was defeated but could resurface under the Supreme Court's ruling.
>
> The Legislature is scheduled to convene June 30 for a special session
> on congressional redistricting. Gov. Rick Perry could add the 10
> percent rule to the session.
>
> Brian Haley, president of the UT-Austin student government, wrote
> Perry on Monday urging him to add the 10 percent rule to the call of
> the session.
>
> Perry spokesman Gene Acuna said the governor's office was studying the
> ruling's impact on Texas with Attorney General Greg Abbott. Any
> decision on expanding the session's issues will come after it starts,
> he said.
>
> A more immediate program would likely come in graduate programs which
> do not fall under the 10 percent rule, Faulkner said.
>
> Faulkner and Douglas Laycock, associate dean of the UT law school,
> noted the court's decision does not allow quotas and does not speak
> specifically to financial aid and scholarship programs.
>
> Both said the university can consider race without a quota system and
> that they believe the ruling would apply to financial aid programs.
>
> http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/news/062303/0623ut.html
Don't forget something special for the greasers.
Jim
I suppose that the next decision from the SCOTUS decision will deem
"slightly" pregnant as being indeed viable...
JT
BroJack wrote:
>
> And dumbed-down marches onward.
>
> BroJack
> ________
>
> University of Texas starts work on new admissions policies
>
> Sung Park AMERICAN-STATESMAN
>
> By Jim Vertuno
>
> ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
> Monday, June 23, 2003
>
> AUSTIN — The University of Texas will draft new affirmative action
> admissions policies that include race as a factor as allowed by
> Monday's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, school President Larry
> Faulkner said Monday.
>
> Any new policy for undergraduate admissions would have to work within
> the confines of the state law that entitles Texas high school students
> who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class enrollment in a
> state university.
>
> Monday's ruling ends the rule of the so-called "Hopwood" decisions by
> federal courts and former state Attorney General Dan Morales that
> prohibited race being used as a factor in admissions as well as
> scholarship and financial aid, Faulkner said.
>
> "It gets to the heart of what we try to accomplish as an institution,"
> Faulkner said. "All university leaders in the United States feel
> keenly their responsibility to educate the leadership of the nation.
> That leadership will come from all population sectors. It's important
> for us to have strong representation here of students from all sectors
> of society."
>
> The earliest any changes could effect enrollment would be the 2004
> fall freshman class. The top 10 percent rule will dominate about 70
> percent of that class, leaving only about 30 percent to fall under any
> new race-included admissions policy.
>
> In two separate rulings Monday, the court approved a program used at
> the University of Michigan law school that gives race a role in the
> admissions decision-making process. It struck down a separate point
> system used by the university to give minority preference in
> undergraduate admissions, but that ruling did not go as far as
> opponents of affirmative action had wanted.
>
> UT had previously tried to get the Supreme Court to overturn the
> "Hopwood" rulings and was interested in how it ruled on the Michigan
> cases.
>
> Minority state lawmakers and advocacy groups hailed the rulings.
>
> "Today's decision is great news for students of color," said Rep.
> Garnet Coleman, D-Houston. "It affirms that the doors of higher
> education should be open to diversity and opportunity should exist for
> all."
>
> Nina Perales, an attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and
> Education Fund, called on all Texas universities to renew affirmative
> action programs.
>
> "They create a stronger, more excellent student body," Perales said.
> "Affirmative action is the key to Latino educational advancement."
>
> The Hopwood decisions stemmed from a lawsuit filed against the
> University of Texas law school admissions policies that considered
> race. The top 10 percent rule was created in 1997 to boost minority
> enrollment without specific race-based policies.
>
> Faulkner said the 10 percent law has been successful in some areas,
> bad for universities in others.
>
> Students who might never have considered going to college now think
> about it because they know they can get it in, he said. But schools
> also want to be able to choose some of their students with varying
> criteria.
>
> "It's simply unhealthy for a whole class to be admitted on one
> criteria," Faulkner said.
>
> Some state lawmakers considered tweaking the 10 percent rule to place
> a cap on the percentage of a freshman class it would enroll. That idea
> was defeated but could resurface under the Supreme Court's ruling.
>
> The Legislature is scheduled to convene June 30 for a special session
> on congressional redistricting. Gov. Rick Perry could add the 10
> percent rule to the session.
>
> Brian Haley, president of the UT-Austin student government, wrote
> Perry on Monday urging him to add the 10 percent rule to the call of
> the session.
>
> Perry spokesman Gene Acuna said the governor's office was studying the
> ruling's impact on Texas with Attorney General Greg Abbott. Any
> decision on expanding the session's issues will come after it starts,
> he said.
>
> A more immediate program would likely come in graduate programs which
> do not fall under the 10 percent rule, Faulkner said.
>
> Faulkner and Douglas Laycock, associate dean of the UT law school,
> noted the court's decision does not allow quotas and does not speak
> specifically to financial aid and scholarship programs.
>
> Both said the university can consider race without a quota system and
> that they believe the ruling would apply to financial aid programs.
>
> http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/news/062303/0623ut.html
>
>
--
Regards,
JT (Residing in Austin, Texas)
Just Tooling Down The Internet Superhighway With my G4.......
> Don't forget something special for the greasers.
You'd better hope that Texas comes up with some type of new quota system
for minorities. It'll be ignorant white-trash putos like you that'll need
it...
"LC" <lcgore@no-spam> wrote in message
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>
> > Don't forget something special for the greasers.
>
>
> You'd better hope that Texas comes up with some type of new quota system
> for minorities. It'll be ignorant white-trash putos like you that'll need
> it...
>
>
That's right, because the greasers continue to have babies at a phenomonal
rate. Many thanks go to the Catholic church and it's ancient beliefs.
brojack@no-spam (BroJack) babbled and bored us in
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> Minority state lawmakers and advocacy groups hailed the rulings.
This has set back racial relations another 25 years.
Don't the stupid blacks understand that as long as they need the white man's
help and preferences and the white man has to shoulder the "burden" of caring
for his children of lesser ability and intelligence, that race relations will
never get better?
And if you don't like the part where I said lesser intelligence, you tell me
why for 40 years the white, asian, new black immigrants, Laotian tribesmen
and Vietnamese right off the boat can always do better than the American
black, but a black from Barbadoes or Jamaica does a lot better then them?
--
-Mapi
The Mapanari of Usenet.
JETman <jetassoc@no-spam> babbled and bored us in
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> I suppose that the next decision from the SCOTUS decision will deem
> "slightly" pregnant as being indeed viable...
>
> JT
>
>
The supreme court has been horribly cowardly regarding race and race
relations.
The Bakke case was where they showed their first instance of pure cowardice,
declaring the racial prefernces "moot" because Bakke waiting for years to be
heard but finally went and became a lawyer instead of a doctor.
Now this. Off again, on again, maybe, maybe not.
Discrimination is bad, but discrimination in favor of blacks and meskins, no
one else, is good.
Go figure how they come to such a horrible decision.
The sodomy laws were a no brainer...any 1st year law student could have "won"
that case, that should never have gone to the supremes in first place.
But when something is really tough like race or abortion, they hide like the
cowards they are.
--
-Mapi
The Mapanari of Usenet.