- A thirty-five-year-old white man, Allan Bakke, had twice applied for admission to the University of California Medical School at Davis. He was rejected both times. The school reserved sixteen places in each entering class of one hundred for "qualified" minorities to redress longstanding, unfair minority exclusions from the medical profession as part of the university's affirmative action program. Bakke's qualifications (college GPA and test scores) exceeded those of any of the minority students admitted in the two years Bakke's applications were rejected. Bakke contended, first in the California courts, then in the Supreme Court, that he was excluded from admission solely based on race.
Questions that needed to be answered about the case:
- Did the quota system of University of California violate the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by practicing an affirmative action policy that resulted in the repeated rejection of Bakke's application for admission to its medical school?
Arguments of my classmates of the Regents side:
- Used Title 2, 4, 6, 7, and 9 Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Brown v. Board of Education decision to establish diversity.
- Quotas create a hospitable environment to historically underserved students constitutional because equal opportunities.
- Quotas guarantees diversity.
- Quotas are a compelling state interest that is agreed through Brown v. Board of Education, 14thamendment, and Civil Rights Act of 1964 to end segregation.
- Quotas evens the playing field and helps blacks get better education
- Did the University of California violate 1964 civil rights at or 14th amendment? No
- This case should not be about whether Mr. Bakke got his feelings hurt but about oppression that African Americans face
- Morally quotas establish a fair fight in the education system, and we are all God’s children seen in Proverbs 16:16.
- Multiple elements in the application process- race was just a factor. Bakke needed more than just test scores. He received the same treatment and process that everyone else did, admitted or not.
Arguments of my classmates of Bakke’s side:
- Affirmative action looks at too much. Allowing an unfair to African Americans who are qualified.
- Quotas judge the color of the skin rather than qualifications
- “Meeting a quota” is setting students up to failure, they are not going to succeed if they aren’t academically not up to par, but Bakke will succeed.
- Lower yearly revenue, quota system schools will fail, students will not apply, failing the entire school system.
- Race over academics is not what school is about.
- Quotas give minorities too much of an advantage. Trying to make them equal to whites not greater.
- Race should not be considered a factor at all
- There has been a bad track record in reaction to black progress- riots and crimes.
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