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Two schools deny reverse biases
Staff Reporter
By BETH GREENWALD
Although some white males may think they are the new minority, University of Kansas admission policies to the schools of law and medicine don't practice reverse discrimination, according to officials involved in the admissions process for the two schools.
Reverse discrimination is charged when minorities and women are given preference to white males in hiring and school admissions. It implies that a minority member is hired or accepted to a school when he is less qualified than a white male and is accepted only because he is a member of a minority group.
THE SUPREME Court recently agreed to decide on the constitutionality of university admission programs that give preference to students when it agreed to hear the case of Allan Bakey.
Bakke, a 36-year-old white civil engineer, charged the University of California at Davis Medical School with reverse discrimination when it didn't accept him.
A special admissions policy at UC-Davis Med School reserves 16 slots for minorities. Bakke charged that he was discriminated against because he was white and that minority students accepted weren't as qualified as he.
Thursday, March 10. 1977
Chester Rempson, vice cchancellor for affirmative action at the KU Medical Center, said the Med Center had no reserved slots for minorities. However, he said, special efforts were made to recruit and retain minority students.
BUT OFFICIALS at KU said the Bakke case didn't directly apply to KU because KU doesn't have a quota system for minority admissions.
Rempson said there were four federally funded programs at the Med Center aimed at increasing minority representation. The programs, one for Indians and one for rural minorities, try to reach minorities in high school, he said.
FOUR YEARS AGO, Rempson said.
minorities were allowed to take an easier, reduced class load but that practice is no longer allowed. The Med Center offers a six-week summer program between college graduation and the start of Med School to prepare students for school requirements. The program is voluntary and both minority and nonminority students attend. Remson said.
Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, issued a statement saying, "in accordance with the University's affirmative action plan, one of the goals of the law school's admission policy is to enlarge participation in professional by members of racial minorities."
PHILIP KISSAM, chairman of the law admissions committee, said the law school had no quota for minorities and minorities were not admitted to the procedures as nonimmunity applicants.
He said the admissions committee didn't think that ministries should make up a majority of the board.
Rempson said the Med Center always tried to maintain or increase minority enrollment from the previous year, and that about 7 per cent of the 1976 200-member graduating class had been minority members. He said there had been an increase in minority Med Center students who enrolled in college as minority students have received doctor of medicine degrees at the Med Center in the last six years.
MINORITY representation in law school also has increased. In 1969, about 3 per cent of the law school students were minority members. This school year about 7 per cent of the law school students are minority members.
Both Rempison and Kisam said minority students accepted by their schools were as diverse as the rest.
*Minority students are as well qualified or better qualified than the average white student.
Rempson said a white male couldn't cry reverse discrimination on the grounds of race. But she was not a white female.
Top teams to debate
KU will play host to most of the top university and college debate teams in the nation today, tomorrow and Saturday when the National Collegiate Tournament is held in the Kansas Union.
Parson said the 56-team team was the last major tournament in the country before the nationals, which will be in mid-April at St. Louis Missouri State College in Suffield, Md.
Donn Parson, KU debate coach, said this week that 15 of the top 16 teams in the country would compete in the three-day tournament.
Preliminaries will be today and tomorrow. Sixteen teams will debate in elimination rounds Saturday. Most of the debates are in the Kansas Union.
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ALTHOUGH TEST scores and grade point average are two criteria for admissions, Rempman said, there is a third criterion whether an applicant will make a doctor.
Kissam said that if applicants were accepted only on the basis of test scores and GPA, there would be few, if any, minorities accepted. However, Kissam said, many students who failed in mathematics accepted either had been judged only on their test scores and academic records.
REMPSON SAID tests often were culturally biased and therefore couldn't be the only criterion for Med School admission. He also said that the Kansas legislature's resolution calling for the preference of rural schools for admission was discriminatory.
Kisang said the law school also considered subjective criteria, including motivation, employment experience and extra-curricular activities.
He said that applicants west of Highway 81 were given preferential treatment, and that on the average, rural students were less qualified than minority students.
The Supreme Court ruling, not expected with next fall, could also affect affirmative action programs.
Bonnie Ritter, director of affirmative action, said affirmative action programs could be affected by the Supreme Court's interpretation of the case.
IF THE court ruled that quotas are unconstitutional, the effect on KU wouldn't be an great as if it ruled that any efforts to encourage any representation were illegal, she said.
She said that a remedy to past racial discrimination couldn't occur without some pain, and that to take away the unearned pain of young males have had wasn't discriminatory.
Hilter said reverse discrimination might exist, but race discrimination was a much more pressing problem.
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