I hope he gets on that board! Don't expect the road ahead to be easy, though. On the positive side, BTW, good efforts like that behind Rodgers are starting to happen in several states.
The following filed briefs in favor of "affirmative
action" in the Michigan "Grutter v. Bollinger"
(Michigan University) case. Be sure to save the
list of corporations below for later reference.
American Bar Association
American Council on Education, et. al.
Civil Rights Project of Harvard University
Clinical Legal Education Association
Fortune 500 Corporations that filed briefs in favor
of "affirmative action" for Michigan University
3M
Abbott Laboratories
American Airlines
Ashland
Bank One
Boeing
Coca-Cola
Dow Chemical
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours
Eastman Kodak
Eli Lilly
Ernst & Young
Exelon
Fannie Mae
General Dynamics
General Mills
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg
KPMG
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft
Mitsubishi
Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Nationwide Financial
Pfizer
PPG
Proctor & Gamble
Sara Lee
Steelcase
Texaco
TRW
United Airlines
General Motors Corporation
Law Deans of Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, New York and Yale University, and
University of Pennsylvania
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law
Michigan Attorney General
Michigan Public Officials
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, et. al.
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
Ohio State University
Thirty-six Faculty Members of The Ohio State University College of Law
UAW (International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers
The college had a similar alumni petition nominee 20 years ago- a conservative named John Steel, also a Californian. Steel was elected, much to the consternation of the PC crowd. During Steel's tenure, Dartmouth graduated Dinesh D'Sousa and Laura Ingraham, among others. It's time for history to repeat itself, perhaps with a little more momentum courtesy of Free Republic!
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004878 From the WSJ:
On Regents and Reality
A university's overseers try to stifle a colleague's dissent on racial preferences.
Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST
Californians probably think racial preferences in college admissions ended in 1996 when voters approved Proposition 209. But John Moores, chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of California, says some UC administrators have been manipulating the system and defying the law for the past eight years. Mr. Moores's fellow regents voted 8-6 to censure him for expressing these views in a recent Forbes magazine opinion piece. A medal is more like what the man deserves.
In his article, Mr. Moores details how Berkeley, the UC system's flagship school, is admitting hundreds of blacks, Latinos and Native Americans with SAT scores as many as 400 points below the whites and Asians who are being rejected. This is because the liberals who run Berkeley, and their enablers on the Board of Regents, all worship at the altar of "diversity."
They're more interested in some ideal racial mix on campus than in matriculating students who are best prepared to do the work and most likely to graduate. In the real world, Mr. Moores had the temerity to write, this idealism translates into "kids who struggled with eighth-grade math hav[ing] to compete with kids who aced advanced-placement calculus."
A Gray Davis appointee, Mr. Moores notes that university administrators are perpetuating discrimination against high-achieving whites and Asians through a policy known as "comprehensive review," which plays down such objective criteria as grade-point averages and test scores.
Instead, the emphasis is placed on highly subjective "measurements," such as an applicant's background and experiences, which mainly serve as proxies for race and ethnicity. The result, writes Mr. Moores, "is an admissions system that is impossible to audit and that offers a cover for university administrators who don't want the media hounding them over declining minority enrollment."
Enrollment of "underrepresented minorities" did fall off at Berkeley after Prop 209 passed, but it rose at other campuses within the UC system, such as Riverside, Irvine, Santa Cruz and elsewhere. By 2002 more of these minorities were attending University of California institutions than before the referendum passed. Moreover, because minority students are now choosing schools suited to their academic abilities, they are better able to compete and less likely to drop out.
Mr. Moores's efforts to expose Berkeley deserve praise, and the attempt by his colleagues to silence him is all too typical of the closed liberal mind. Racial bean counters are using taxpayer dollars to circumvent the law and the will of the voters. And in the name of political correctness, they're also doing a disservice to many college-bound minorities.