THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1978
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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
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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
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A lawyer for Allan Bakke Wed
nesday hailed a Supreme Court de
cision requiring medical school ad
mission for the 38-year-old white
engineer, an association of medical
schools expressed disappointment
and a civil rights lawyer welcomed
the ruling’s support for race as a fac
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Elsewhere, a conservative
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violate the Constitution. An official
at a predominantly black university
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The chief counsel of the NAACP
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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
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the schools “took into consideration
the need for broad representation in
medicine from all segments of our
society,” Cooper said in a state
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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.”
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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. Yudof, a University of
Texas at Austin law professor and an
expert in education law and the
Constitution said the court avoided
the primary issue.
“The court decided the ease on
statutory grounds — the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.”
He said Congress could alter that
statute, therefore the court’s deci
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to statute — such as those funded in
whole or in part by federal funds.
“You may see an exodus of minor
ity students from public to private
institutions,” he said.
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