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- From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
- Newsgroups: misc.education,alt.discrimination,soc.culture.african.american,soc.women
- Subject: Re: "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.183526.2693@panix.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 18:35:26 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.010630.1914@microsoft.com> <1gappuINNf0s@bach.crhc.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec13.012844.945@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Organization: Trivializers R Us
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- In article <1992Dec13.012844.945@samba.oit.unc.edu> Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:
- >>BTW, I am STILL waiting for you to produce a list of white
- >>and asian students who were "qualified" and have not been
- >>able to attend college due to AA.
- >
- >I refer you to the famous case where a person was denied access to
- >Med school in California solely because he was Caucasian. He had
- >to go to court to obtain access.
-
- You mean the Bakke case, which involved an overage applicant (fewer
- years of return for society's investment) with marginal grades and
- a chip on the shoulder so major that only a fool would want him for
- a doctor? He had only higher test scores going for him. But then
- of course U Cal was eventually forced to admit him, so he was able
- to attent medical school (not college).
-
- Hard cases make bad law
-