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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 7, 1998
Affirmative action debate questions diversity
Circuit court ruling creates controversy about admissions
By Graham K. Johnson gjohnson@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The debate about affirmative action heated up yesterday at the University of Kansas.
The debate centered on a ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the 1996 Hopwood vs. Texas case. The KU Federalist Society sponsored the event yesterday afternoon in Green Hall. About 100 people attended.
The debate featured Tom Stacy, professor of law, and Michael Greve, director of the Center for Individual Rights, a Washington, D.C., firm that specializes in civil rights. Members of the firm counseled the plaintiffs in the Hopwood case.
The two debated the court's ruling which said diversity was not a compelling justification for racial prefer
ences in college admissions.
In 1994, Cheryl Hopwood and three other white students sued the University of Texas law school. They charged that admissions policies discriminated against them because of their race. In 1996, the court ruled in their favor.
Stacy said the court was wrong about the importance of racial diversity.
"Diversity is important to learning citizenship skills in a pluralistic society and to the legitimacy and social acceptability of institutions," Stacy said. "Everyone understands the idea and importance of having at least some Black policeman patrolling a predominately Black neighborhood."
Greve said he agreed with some of the ideas but factors besides strictly objective standards of merit, such as test scores, should be considered in admission.
"I don't care if universities have students throw darts or have them run around a course." Greve said.
Greve argued that racial classifications were not acceptable because they eventually amount to zero-sum political games, which are unfair and unconstitutional.
because you cannot win without making someone else worse off." Greve said.
"Zero-sum games are inherently unfair
The Supreme Court will not review Hopwood vs. Texas. Because of this, the ruling stands in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
However, recent developments regarding affirmative action have supporters worried the ruling could represent a spreading trend.
This turn of events has affirmative action proponents at the University concerned about the future of diversity at colleges. Sherwood Thompson, director of minority affairs, said the trend could hurt the progress of racial diversity at many universities.
A report from the University of California indicates a significant drop in minority admissions for next year's class. The drop reportedly resulted from California's Prop 209, which bans affirmative action in state government. A similar bill recently was introduced into the Kansas Legislature by Rep. Tony Powell.
"It could have a devastating impact on the progress many universities have made in increasing minority representation at universities across the nation," Thompson said.
Michael Greve gives the disadvantages of racial-preference admissions standards in higher education. Greve, director of the Center for Individual Rights, participated in the debate yesterday at Green Hall. Photo by Tara Bradley/KANSAN
SUA hacks up Soul Coughing for Dav On The Hill
The band Soul Coughing, at right, will headline Day On The Hill this year. The band Los Amigos Invisibles will open for Soul Coughing. Contributed art.
Marcelo Vilela
mvilela@kansan.com
Kanson staff writer
Soul Coughing will be on campus May 2 for Day On The Hill.
The band is in the process of signing the contract with Student Union Activities to play at the festival.
"We heard this band is good to work with," said Sue Buckley, SUA manager. "We didn't want bands that would cause violence or get the audience out of control. Soul Coughing is a band people can groove to and still walk away in one piece."
the contract establishes the band's fee to play at the festival, which remains confidential until one week before the show, Buckley said.
Soul Coughing's sound is a mix of rock, jazz, rap and hip hop. The
band, which is from New York,
was formed in 1992. The members
got together when guitarist and
vocalist M. Doughty, who writes
the lyrics, met keyboarder and
sampler Mark De Gli Antony,
drummer Yuval Gabay and upright bassist Sebastian Steinberg.
They have worked on a Gap Kids' campaign, were part of Lollapaloozə '96 and have been known for encouraging bootlegging of their live shows. They have two albums and have appeared on several movie soundtracks. They are working on their next album.
SUA live music committee compiled a list of bands within the
John Orcutt, Hutchinson senior and SUA live music coordinator, said the band's manager said Day On The Hill was one of best college music festivals in the nation.
price range they could afford, and Soul Coughing was voted as a favorite.
"This is a band that encompasses a lot of different genres," Orcutt said. "It's a very crowd-pleasing group."
Orcutt said Soul Coughing's fee is the smallest talent fee the band has ever received to play at a festival. He said its usual talent fee is about $10,000.
The other bands SUA considered were De La Soul and John Spencer Blues Explosion. De La Soul wanted $ 5,000 more than SUA could offer, and John Spencer Blues Explosion had the date already booked in New York.
Orcutt said the local lineup of bands for the festival would be Fear & Whiskey, The Believe It Or Nots, The Creature Comforts and the band selected at KJHK's
Farmer's Ball on April 21, 22 and 23. The band Los Amigos Invisibles will be the opening act for Soul Coughing.
Orcutt said that SUA was working hard to improve the surrounding atmosphere at Day On The Hill.
"SUA would like to involve as many organizations as we can effectively include in Day On The Hill." Orcutt said. "We are trying to increase the number of groups interested in Day On The Hill, creating some kind of ownership feeling toward it."
Orcutt said organizations were welcome to put up information tables at the event or even sponsor mini parallel events.
This is the first year that Day On The Hill will have this kind of concurrent activity with the festival. So far, Students For A Free Tibet and the Action Alliance have confirmed their participation.
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