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| Written by Maryellen Rogusky |
| Friday, 06 January 2006 06:36 |
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Allan Bakke, a white engineer, sued the University of CA at Davis Medical School for discrimination. The Davis school had two admissions programs- “one in which all applicants competed for eighty-four places; and a special admissions program, in which only members of disadvantaged minorities competed for sixteen places” (Ravitch, 1983, p. 285). Comments: The California Supreme Court decided that the University of Ca must admit Bakke because their dual admissions programs were unconstitutional because it operated as a racial quota system. The University appealed and the ensuing debates attracted a lot of media attention, subsequently making it a landmark case affecting admissions policies of institutes of higher education. References: Bakke v. University of California,132 Cal. Rptr. 680, 553 P.2d 1152 (1976). |