\doc\web\98\08\truthpr.txt +OK 9560 octets Received: from home.ease.lsoft.com (home.ease.lsoft.com [206.241.12.9]) by mail1.halcyon.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04998 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:32:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from home (home.ease.lsoft.com) by home.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <15.FF8D86B7@home.ease.lsoft.com>; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 15:34:18 -0500 Received: from HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM by HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 16091047 for AADAP-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 15:34:18 -0500 Received: from dnai.com by home.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <14.FDB6BFD4@home.ease.lsoft.com>; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 15:34:17 -0500 Received: from tom_wood (dnai-207-181-238-6.dialup.dnai.com [207.181.238.6]) by dnai.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA13228 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:32:33 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: adp@mail.dnai.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Approved-By: ADP Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981031123519.00940750@mail.dnai.com> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:35:19 -0800 Reply-To: AADAP-L-Request@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Sender: Americans Against Discrimination and Preferences From: ADP Subject: "What's New," from the I-200 web site To: AADAP-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail1.halcyon.com id MAA04998 Status: >From the I-200 web site (www.i-200.org) ************** What's New (updated daily) Saturday, November 1,1998: The Truth About Racial Preferences Is Out There…. by Ken Masugi* The extent of preferences at the University of Washington's professional schools staggers the disinterested citizen. The disparities in admissions are enormous, they persist in lower grades through graduation, and are reflected in success on professional licensing examinations. In the medical school the test scores of the average Asian/White admittee are over 25 percentile points higher than the average Black/Chicano admittee (1997); that's a difference spanning one-fourth of all test-takers. Only Black/Chicano applicants are admitted with both lower than average grade point average (GPA) and standardized test scores. In the law school, as well, race and ethnicity pervade the admissions process: In 1997 the average GPA of the rejected Whites was higher than the average GPA of the admitted Blacks. The average standardized test score of the rejected Whites was 157, virtually identical to the average score of the admitted Blacks. This cannot be what affirmative action was intended to be. So conclude statistician Jerry Cook and I about admissions standards of the University of Washington's Schools of Medicine and Law in a study based on official records obtained from the University. These disparities not only deny superior students the places they merit, but they corrupt the entire admissions process and hence the mission of these schools. There can be no excuse for these extreme preferences at the professional school level. The inadequacies of undergraduate and secondary education must never compromise the professional schools' standards. This "quotacentrism"-this drive for a certain number of each minority (except of course Asians)-leads to perverse recruitment practices. For example, in the Medical School, not only are better qualified Asians and Whites passed over in favor of Blacks and Hispanics, but these Blacks and Hispanics admitted are overwhelmingly from out of state. Thus the UW is serving out-of-state applicants at the expense of more qualified in-state applicants. The Law School is now nationally notorious through civil libertarian Nat Hentoff's writing about its preferences, which led to the denial of admission to a sterling young woman, Katuria Smith, whose academic credentials were bested at most by one black admittee in the year she applied. She is now suing the Law School for admission. Racial preferences in the Law School start with an emphasis on race in the application forms. The Personal Statement asks students discuss their background, with their race or ethnic origin as the lead or the most important item for admissions purposes. Thus, the UW Law School is teaching its graduates the unconstitutional principle that the State may use race as the decisive factor in determining a man or woman's rights, and that applicants can (and should) depend on race as a tool to advance their interests. And the corrupting influence of preferential policies continues with administrators being deceptive about them. The Dean of the Law School so frustrated Hentoff with deceitful answers about racial preferences that he sarcastically declared his desire "to audit a course in legal ethics at that law school." When asked for records of how UW graduates did on bar and medical exams, by race and ethnicity, UW Deans in the Schools of Medicine and Law boldly denied the existence of such data (at least prior to 1997). This makes no sense. Are we to assume that UW does not keep records on the success or failure of its professional schools graduates by race and ethnicity, when so much energy is put into screening by these attributes? Would that our administrators were truly so color-blind! Bureaucrats-- and that includes the Deans and Presidents of universities-- love to simplify problems: bottom-lines, organizational charts, flow-charts, and above all numbers, such as quotas. Quotas are the lazy person's way out of an enduring social issue. This bureaucratic mentality of the modern university requires a reality check. A hard look at the numbers shows that the University of Washington's professional schools have violated their own professional and ethical standards, all in the name of racial and ethnic preferences. There is no way this can be called justice, absolutely no way, not in America. The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for the Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans…. A segregated admissions process creates suggestions of stigma and caste no less than a segregated classroom, and in the end it may produce the result despite its contrary intentions. One other assumption must be clearly disapproved, that blacks or browns cannot make it on their individual merit. That is a stamp of inferiority that a state is not permitted to place on any lawyer. --The late Justice and Washingtonian William O. Douglas in DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312 (1974) _______________ *A graduate of Tacoma public schools, Dr. Masugi has taught for St. Martin's College and Tacoma Community College. He has lectured at several Washington State universities. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Independence Institute, Golden, Colorado. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPECIAL NOTE: Tuesday, November 3rd: Election Night Victory Celebration. Friends of I-200 have reserved a reception room at the Doubletree Hotel in Bellevue for grassroots supporters. Hors-d'oeuvres will be provided. The hotel is off the 405 freeway, exit 13 at 300 - 112th Avenue S.E., Bellevue, 425/455-1300. John Carlson and Ward Connerly will be arriving after 6:30 and hope to see I-200 supporters that evening. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Previous editions of "What's New": Friday, October 30, 1998: I-200 Support Remains Strong In Face of Deceptive Ads Aired by No!200 Campaign Thursday, October 29: California Gov. Pete Wilson debunks myths about Prop. 209. Wednesday, October 28: Click here to read a pro-200 letter in the News Tribune. Tuesday, October 27: A Senate Democrat explains why he supports I-200. Monday, October 26: Bremerton Sun endorses I-200. Sunday, October 25: Nine days to go: what you can do to help. Saturday, October 24: Is I-200 "vague"? Friday, October 23: How current law in Washington state really works. Thursday, October 22: "Al Gore, demagogue of preferences" Wednesday, October 21: Kirkland engineer John Alberti makes the case for I-200. Tuesday, October 20: Two pro I-200 columns and PDC double standards. Monday, October 19: New statistics and an intriguing quote from the University of Washington. Sunday, October 18: A major No!200 donor is not complying with state campaign finance law. Saturday, October 17: The Seattle Times admits that Gov. Gary Locke is misleading voters about the effects of I-200. ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ AADAP-L, a free, moderated email list with daily postings, is a project of Americans Against Discrimination and Preferences (http://www.aadap.org). You can subscribe, unsubscribe, or get information on AADAP-L by sending electronic mail to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM. In the message body (not the header), type the following commands (capitalized text only): SUBSCRIBE AADAP-L [to subscribe] SIGNOFF AADAP-L [to unsubscribe] INFO AADAP-L [to receive more information on the list] Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested. .