AP Report: UT Seeks Cap on Ten Percent Plan

A University of Texas task force wants the Legislature to put a cap on the number of

students admitted under a law guaranteeing admission for those who graduated in the top 10 percent of

their high school class. [AP Jan. 29, 2004.]

Editor’s Note: See below Sen. Jeff

Wentworth’s comment to an El Paso reporter, that affirmative action would yield fewer total complaints

from the public than ten percent.