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THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1978 Page 7 . ¥ akke shuns publicity luring court process 1 sessiij SUpn rovijfj wtaiilin Wersjj l ge,ki toric.; t)veds« at,!* nitteet revisio;| I'ssigtd United Press International By his own choice, Allan : Bakke remained silent during the Supreme Court’s considera- I tion of his historic reverse dis- I crimination suit. When previously pressed for a statement, Bakke once told newsmen, "I prefer to stay out of it in a personal sense. I’m not participating in the publicity as pect of it. I prefer to let the case stand on its own merits and let the discussion proceed. ” That he did. [ On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled the 38-year-old 'h hefe l if * l”oiifc irds til it state! nopri domeii eplanil d cm rkiip et. Volh norelk can! ce, is at, Vdi tedly j he Nd s for I'll to tamla:: " he sir alk ;f I white engineer must be admitted I to the University of California Medical School, but said the school can take race into account in future admissions. Bakke filed his suit after he was kept out of the UC Medical School at Davis in 1972 because 16 admissions places were re served for minorities who entered under less strict standards. ■ From the day he took his case to court, Bakke has shunned per sonal publicity, refusing to grant interviews and declining to be photographed. Bakke was born in Min neapolis, Minn., Feb. 4, 1940, but moved as a child to Florida. As a student in the Naval Re serve Officers Training Corps program, he was obligated to go on active duty and served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, including seven months in Vietnam as commander of a combat anti-aircraft missile unit. He returned to the United States as a captain and moved to California to work at the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- traton Ames Research Center in j 112 " 51 I Sunnyvale in 1967. s pj e completed work for a mas ters degree in engineering at Stanford in 1970 and began tak ing premedical courses while continuing at Ames. It was about that time that Bakke became serious about going into medicine. He worked as a volunteer in the emergency room of a local hospital and re portedly was interested in the design of medical equipment. Bakke, who is married and has two young children, still works at the Ames space lab, where he is assistant chief of research in the equipment and engineering branch. His work is primarily in the field of life sciences. Bakke applied to 11 medical schools in 1972. He was invited to UC Davis for an interview on the basis of his high scholastic grades and test scores. He received a high rating from Dr. Theodore West, the faculty interviewer, but West noted Bakke’s age was 33 and this was about “the last chance he could hope to start medical school. Although he scored 468 on a total 500 in the admission “point system,” Bakke was rejected. He pleaded for reconsidera tion in a letter to the school ad mission director and when it went unanswered for a month, he wrote another letter saying he felt “compelled to pursue a dif ferent course of action,” to get admitted. The letter, as quoted by The New York Times, said: “Applicants chosen to be our doctors should be those present ing the best qualifications, both academic and personal. “Most are selected according to this standard but I am con vinced that a significant fraction is judged by a separate criteria. I am referring to quotas, open or covert, for racial minorities. “I realize that the rationale for these quotas is that they attempt to atone for past racial discrimi nation but insisting on a new ra cial bias in favor of minorities is not a just situation.” Opinions vary across nation on decision in Bakke case Qbc) INTERSTATE 'TZeatuz UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER 846-6714 & & -WILLIAM HOLDEN owl? 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The chief counsel of the NAACP said the “bottom line was the reaf firmation by the Supreme Court that race may be taken into account in fashioning remedial programs.” The high court ruled Bakke must be admitted to medical school but also said race may be considered in future admissions. “Were elated that the court has ordered Mr. Bakke into medical school,” said Robert D. Links, an attorney for the aspiring medical school student who went to court contending he would have won ad mission to medical school but for a minority admissions program. Dr. John A.D. Cooper, president of the Association of American Med ical Colleges representing 122 accredited medical schools in the United States, said members were “disappointed with the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Bakke versus the University of California. ” Minorities gained increased ad mission to medical schools because the schools “took into consideration the need for broad representation in medicine from all segments of our society,” Cooper said in a state ment. “The association will continue to use every legal means to improve for minorities the opportunities for access to medical education.” Nathanial Jones, chief counsel to the NAACP, said in San Francisco the organization planned a meeting of legal scholars to assess the impact of the ruling. The court, he said, “made it clear there can be continued use of race in shaping remedical programs.” Had the court rejected affirmative action programs, be said, the Con stitution “would have been con verted from a sword and shield for our protection into an instrument of our decapitation.” WE WILL BE CLOSED JULY 1-9 FOR VACATION wide PIPE CIGARS SELECTION DOMESTIC & CUSTOM BLENDED 0f> IMPORTED TOBACCO 3709 E. 29TH ST. TOWN & COUNTRY CENTER State officials question discrimination decision United Press International Some of the state’s top officials Wednesday said the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the Allen Bakke reverse discrimination suit may have done more to complicate mat ters than clarify them. The high court Wednesday ruled Bakke was discriminated against in his attempts to enter medical school at the University of California at Davis. The court said the school was wrong to reject Bakke, but it also ruled the school could continue to allow special admission of minority students. In Fort Worth, the outgoing pres ident of the State Bar of Texas, Travis Shelton, said the ruling was ambiguous. “The Supreme Court said in ef fect that California school officials went too far in relying on race in determining entrance qualifications for some candidates. The question now is how far is too far?” Mark G. 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