Texas Civil Rights Review

Author: mopress

  • Watching the Regulators

    If

    you’re browsing our site on Jan. 29, 2004, please click into the Texas Higher Education Coordinating

    Board’s quarterly meeting, via streaming

    video:

    http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/about/boardmeeting.htm

  • 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.

  • Penn Will Keep Legacy Program, Thankyou

    “We have a well-established program to encourage students of our graduates to apply to Penn

    and have had this program in place for years,” [Admissions Dean Lee] Stetson said. “Basically we say

    we will give a measure of preference to students with an alumni affiliation who apply during the early

    decision program.”

    “I would find it difficult to believe we would change the

    admissions program drastically to eliminate a program that has worked so well for us over the years,”

    Stetson said. [From the Daily Pennsylvanian, “Texas A&M Abandons Legacy Admissions,” Brooke Daley

    Jan. 28, 2004.]

  • California Aggie Questions Texas A&M Leadership

    [Quote:] College admissions need not be based exclusively on merit, unless university

    officials claim that their school’s policy is to reward merit exclusively. Most universities aim to

    create an environment that aids in the development of responsible, capable, and tolerant adults, which

    entails the consideration of a host of factors that generate the requisite diversity to accomplish

    this.[end quote from The California Aggie (UC-Davis), Letter, “The Hypocrisy of Popular Opposition,”

    Adam Barr, Jan. 29, 2004.]

  • Texas Aggie: High Schools not Equal

    [Quote about Princeton Study] What the survey suffers from is the same problem that the top

    10 percent law does: It treats all high schools the same. The automatic admissions program means that a

    student with a 4.0 grade point average who does not place in the top 20 percent of his class at a

    competitive school must fight for admissions while the valedictorian at a mediocre high school with a

    3.5 grade point average is automatically admitted to the school of his choice. [endquote from Texas A&M

    Battalion, “Unruly Behavior,” Matt Maddox Jan. 29,

    2004.]