PUBLIC FORUM : UC DEFYING VOTERS ON RACIAL PREFERENCES.The column of Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis (born March 27, 1927, New York City) is a prominent liberal intellectual, writing for The New York Times op-ed page and of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, ``UC's goal still diversity, but the path has changed'' (Opinions, Dec. 2), demonstrates beyond any question that University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). bureaucrats just don't get it, and won't until one or more of them gets hit in the pocketbook. Quoting the new chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , who said, ``what's important here is the end: diversity,'' Lewis concludes: ``Values apart from test scores do figure in university admissions policies - and should.'' In one brief moment the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX chancellor and Lewis trash Proposition 209 and stick a thumb in the eyes of the majority of voters in California. This absurd circumstance does call for an examination of the fundamental goal of the UC system. Does this publicly financed educational institution have as its goal to educate the ``best and the brightest'' or is it to distribute college degrees in a racially equal fashion? The former course leads to educational and societal improvement, whereas the latter course leads to declining levels of performance. Years of ``affirmative action'' have translated into reality of racial preferences and declining academic performance. The United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. is now a Third World nation academically. In rejecting review of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' upholding of Proposition 209, the Supreme Court has reinforced recent decisions confirming that racial discrimination, in the form of racial preferences and set-asides, are illegal. UC bureaucrats have been explicit in the means by which they hope to maintain ``diversity.'' To wit, UC students should be admitted on the basis of the top percentage from each high school in the state. The UC bureaucrats think that no one will see that this simply means that racially dictated housing patterns will result in racially skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data UC admissions. Busing didn't work and this won't either. P. Dennis Keenan Glendale Van Nuys porn shops Count me in with Alan T. Bales (Public Forum, Dec. 4) and the others who have worked to bring to light the facts about the smutty smut n. 1. a. A particle of dirt. b. A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt. 2. a. Obscenity in speech or writing. b. Pornography. 3. a. porn shops invading our neighborhood on Oxnard Street in Van Nuys. There have been neighborhood petitions against these shops and numerous people have called the Department of Building and Safety, the Planning Department and our councilwoman, Cindy Miscikowski Cindy Miscikowski represented the 11th District on the Los Angeles City Council for two full terms from 1997 through 2005. Previously, she was an aide to Councilman Marvin Braude and the Executive Director of the Skitball Cultural Center in its beginning stages. . Now there is going to be a special meeting at Parker Center Parker Center is the headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Department, and is located in Downtown LA. It is named for former LAPD chief William H. Parker. Originally with the prosaic name, the Police Administration Building, ground for the center was broken on December 30, 1952 in Los Angeles to let all of us know, in spite of our protests, why these porn shops will be allowed to advertise and sell ``sex toys, etc.'' Why isn't this meeting being held in Van Nuys so that the people who are directly affected can attend? Come on, you big-time city planners and politicians. You can only get away with this for so long. Here's looking to the next election day. It might even help if our next council person actually lives in Van Nuys and not in a gated Brentwood community. Would that person allow the invasion of smut smut, name for an order of parasitic fungi (Ustilaginales) and the various diseases of plants caused by them. Smuts produce sootlike masses of spores on the host. into her back yard? Nancy Muenter Van Nuys HMOs and profits I agree with Dr. John Curtis The name John Curtis might refer to:
Like little Jack Horner
Little Jack Horner is a nursery rhyme. Rhyme
That's why I quit the HMOs: They lie. Melvin H. Kirschner, M.P.H., M.D. Van Nuys Troubling responses I would like to thank you for your articles on Dec. 7 and Dec. 8 about the anniversary of the 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. I watched one network and two local TV newscasts Dec. 7 and none even mentioned Pearl Harbor. The responses to your Daily News Line question Dec. 8 indicates that almost half of the people think that we should forget Pearl Harbor and its lessons. What a shame. I was born 10 years after the war ended, and yet when I visited the USS Arizona Memorial USS Arizona Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table). a few years ago, I was so moved it brought tears to my eyes. How can we ignore such a turning point in our nation's history? Remember that many of the people who fought that war went on to put men on the moon. I would like to salute and say thanks to the Pearl Harbor survivors and all of our veterans. Bob Tyszka California City I am confused if not appalled that 551 (almost half) of those who responded to your question thought it not important to remember Pearl Harbor and its impact on this country. Perhaps they interpreted this to be asking if it should be made a national holiday. This I could understand. However, to say that it should not be ``remembered'' is unthinkable. It would be nice if a few of these 551 would write to the Public Forum with an explanation and restore my faith in human decency. - J.R. Nieters Van Nuys Payback for downtown How typical of our arrogant City Council members. They float an idea to centralize government functions in a civic center, take loads of heat from a public that basically hates the whole idea of going downtown, wait a few months to let the discussion fade from memory, then vote unanimously to proceed with the centralization of services and the public be damned. This civic center diamond plan is not about making services better for the taxpaying public. Rather, it is payback to political contributors who stand to gain from construction projects and land deals downtown. The only way to disinfect To remove the virus code that has attached itself to a legitimate file. Sometimes, the antivirus program cannot untangle the code, and the infected file has to be deleted. See quarantine. the patronage and pork swamp that is Los Angeles government is to vote out the entire state of current officeholders and start over from scratch. - Pat Parker Los Angeles |
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