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Carter urges special minority status in admissions
WASHENGTON (AP)—The Carter administration urged the Supreme Court yesterday to rule that blacks and other minorities can be given special treatment by a state medical school's admissions program.
The justice Department said, however, that the Supreme Court should put off any decision on whether Allan Ginsberg deserved to be the University of California at Davis Medical School soley
because he is white. Bakke had brought suit
charging reverse discrimination.
In a 17-page legal brief signed by Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell and other top Justice Department officials, the administration endorsed, in sweeping and general terms, affirmative action programs that take race into account to overcome effects of discrimination.
possible. But while endorsing the use of "reasonable selected numerical targets" by
Med student fights ruling
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KANAS CITY, Kan. — A black medical student at the KU Medical Center says he will press a lawsuit to block his dismissal from the medical school despite a sack in his case.
"I'm not going to quit. We feel the facts are there," Gregory said Monday in response to a ruling by Judge Earl E. O'Connor, who refused Friday to issue a perament order prohibiting Gregory's dismissal.
Gregory contends in a suit filed in July that racial discrimination led to his dismissal. He had been attending classes at the Med Center under a temporary order
"The University has allowed white students who did not meet its standards to pass on and graduate as physicians," Gregory said. "Therefore, I should be allowed to pass because this is my situation."
Isaac Gregory, 30, said yesterday he had not filed an appeal yet. He must do so by 5 p.m. today if any further action is to be taken, according to the clerk at the Kansas City, Kan., federal district court where Gregory's preliminary hearing took place.
It later drew a distinction not fully explained, between such "reasonable goals" and those more "unintelligible."
credentials that may have been caused by discrimination and do not reflect differences in ability to answer or in ability to con-
tinue an assignment. Note the health of the general population."
The thrust of the Justice Department brief was the product of much internal debate and litigation.
The Justice Department's position, except for its opposition to inflexible quas in such programs, followed closely the reasoning of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, with than 180 organizations and individuals to the friend-of-the-court briefs in the case.
In a broader policy statement, the brief stated, "Although we have made progress in eliminating discrimination case by case, the major civil rights laws have been effective for little more than a decade and we must remain dismilitation with us. The vast majority of our racial and language minorities remain poorer and less educated, suffer greater unemployment, are more vulnerable to economic, social and political—that bear upon their lives than is the white majority."
*President Carter was asked for his views
the issue was seen as a political as well
and a moral one.*
such programs, the government brief said
rigid excavation quotas" could not pass
the test.
"We think the government's brief in its present form is acceptable," said Victor Goodle of the black lawyers firm. "It's better than we first had been led to believe."
other lawyers said they wanted to read the brief before commenting.
and tutored.
That argument did not go as far as some civil rights lawyers had hoped. Those lawyers argued that even quotas—rigidly reserved slots for minority applicants—should be ruled legal because they meet a "compelling state interest" in providing needed minority doctors and other professionals.
"I feel I should stay on so the students will have some representation," he said.
"I had no idea at the time who he was," she said.
Bakke, a white civil engineer from Sunnyvale, Calif., argued successfully before the California Supreme Court that the medical school's special admissions program deprived him of his constitutional rights.
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Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism, said he had not discussed Green's resignation on the board, which has been approved by the approves the operating budget, with Green.
to announce his resignation at tonight's communications committee meeting.
The argument probably will not be favored by opponents of affirmative action programs who see any use of racial criteria as the basis for a type of reverse discrimination.
The brief stated, "It is appropriate to take race into account to adjust for differences in
decision that could determine the future of all affirmative action programs in education and business and profoundly affect race relations.
Ethics . . .
Green said he saw no conflict of interest in his $250-a-seamster position as advertising promotions co-management and recruitment at the removed Nunley was that there was a chance that he might not be able to fully participate. The $300 monthly from the athletic department.
He said he would have been admitted if the special program had not allowed students with lower academic qualifications to be accepted ahead of him.
The state court ruled that the 14th Amendment, insuring equal treatment to all citizens, prevented the school from making race a factor in admissions.
Green said, "There's some question about to me. There is an answer, and to other people there is no answer."
LOHR DENIED that Green's presence on the board has a influence in her naming the overtive characters.
It said the amendment was violated by the program which reserved for minority students 16 of the 100 places in each year's entering class.
“To the extent we are still a nation of 'haves' and 'have-nots' the dividing line is in part a function of race,” the government brief stated.
The government brief stated that the legal record in Bakke's case is not complete enough to be the basis of a Supreme Court
The communications committee will elect a new Ransom board representative at its meeting.
Gregory failed the first-year medical program twice, but he contends the physiology and biochemistry departments changed their grading standards to pass only failing white students.
Green was on the Kansas board last spring when it selected Judy Lohr as business manager. She later chose him for the assistant promotions manager position, and he moved to full co-manager when his predecessor resigned.
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