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Red, don't you think it's funny that the very people who sneeringly say that WE all march in lockstep with Bush are the very ones who LOVE to point out when anybody does disagree with him?
Later..."And so, I have been a supporter of affirmative action that is not quota-based and that does not seek to make race the only factor but considers race one among many factors."
They get their numbers other ways and the people have to meet the standards !
President Bush: "You mean that faculty position I hired you away from at Stanford University was filled based on an affirmative action program? You're fired -- We only want the best working here in this administration!"
Senator Byrd: "Good move, Mr. President! I'll find ya someone from West Virginia for her position. Race will not be a factor in my selection -- but I promise you I won't send ya a white n!gger or a black n!gger!"
National security adviser Condoleezza Rice took a rare central role in a domestic debate within the White House and helped persuade President Bush to publicly condemn race-conscious admissions policies at the University of Michigan, administration officials said yesterday.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3752-2003Jan16.html
Rice Helped Shape Bush Decision on Admissions
By Mike Allen and Charles Lane Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, January 17, 2003; Page A01
National security adviser Condoleezza Rice took a rare central role in a domestic debate within the White House and helped persuade President Bush to publicly condemn race-conscious admissions policies at the University of Michigan, administration officials said yesterday.
The officials said Rice, in a series of lengthy one-on-one meetings with Bush, drew on her experience as provost at Stanford University to help convince him that favoring minorities was not an effective way of improving diversity on college campuses.
Rice, the first female national security adviser, told Bush that she worked to increase the number of African American faculty members at Stanford but that she was "absolutely opposed to quotas," a senior administration official said. A Stanford official said that under Rice, who served from 1993 to 1999 and was the university's first nonwhite provost, the number of black faculty members increased from 36 to 44.
Officials described Rice as one of the prime movers behind Bush's announcement on Wednesday that he would urge the Supreme Court to strike down Michigan's affirmative action program.
"it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body."
Saying there were circumstances"in which it is necessary to consider race as a factor among many factors"
Bush's Stance on U-M Damages Race Relations
By The Detroit News
Is the Bush administration wrong to oppose the University of Michigan's admissions process?
President George W. Bush's statement this week urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the University of Michigan's affirmative action program is wrong -- wrong in its facts, wrong in its analysis and wrong in the signal it sends about race relations, diversity and equal opportunity.
The president's statement was made as his administration prepared to file a legal argument in a case challenging Michigan's admission process.
The brief is only advisory. But it is seen as an important statement on the issue of affirmative action.
In his remarks denouncing the University of Michigan's program to ensure diversity, the president used the word "quotas" no less than three times and "numerical targets" once. But neither Michigan's law school admissions process nor its undergraduate approach is a quota system. By using the code word "quota," the president was either intentionally deceptive or purposely inflammatory.
Michigan's process of undergraduate admissions involves a complex grid that takes in many factors. African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans receive 20 points on this grid. But as the university's president, Mary Sue Coleman, noted this week, 110 points on the grid are based on academics -- and 20 points are also awarded to economically disadvantaged students.
Other points are awarded to outstanding athletes and students from underrepresented parts of the state. The university's goal is to create a diverse student body with different strengths that will reflect the real world that students will encounter when they leave the university. That should be the point of public higher education.
The law school admissions program, also under challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court, doesn't have a grid process but instead looks for a "critical mass" of minority students.
The university's admissions process is little different from programs adopted throughout corporate America, which has realized that a diverse workforce is needed to compete effectively and fairly in a nation of many races, religions and ethnic backgrounds.
Indeed, many of America's largest companies argue that the U-M's approaches are right and necessary, and they have made their points in their own briefs submitted to the court.
The University of Michigan receives many more applications from students who meet the minimum qualifications for admission than it can place. It has to have some rational process to balance its student body. Diversity is an admirable goal, and the university's approaches are legitimate tactics to achieve that goal.
Its admissions process works to help underrepresented minority students -- whose parents and grandparents and ancestors suffered decades of official discrimination that ended less than 40 years ago -- have a shot at one of the nation's best public universities.
Fortunately, this state has many fine public universities in addition to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor -- from Michigan State to Oakland University to Wayne State to Western Michigan -- to name a few. Qualified students who aren't admitted to U-M at Ann Arbor still have access to a quality publicly funded institution of higher education in this state. So it's not as though U-M's admissions program slams the door on educational opportunity to anyone.
The president made progress for himself and his party when he last month publicly denounced Mississippi GOP Sen. Trent Lott's recent gushing statements about a long-ago segregationist presidential campaign and helped engineer Lott's removal as Senate majority leader.
But his stance on U-M's admission's process is a setback for himself and for his party. If he wants to succeed in attracting people of color to the GOP, he'll have to do better.
And if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against U-M, it will have dealt a blow to all Americans and turned back the clock for many of them.
This is just yer typical Democrat reporter playing "gotcha" with Bush. It wouldn't surprise me if Rice herself lets it be known that this story is not be believed as written.