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Diversity
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University does a good job ensur
ing ethnic diversity, it does not use
the quota-type methods that often
stir controversy at other universi
ties.
“Ethnic diversity is big, but stu
dents have to be able to do the
work,” she said. “That's always our
first priority in admitting students.”
The issue of affirmative action in
university admissions has been a
topic of heated debate ever since the
1978 Supreme Court ruling in Re
gents of the University of California
v. Bakke, which ruled that colleges
could use an applicant’s race and
identity as a factor in the admission
process, but prohibited the use of
quotas to remedy past discrimina
tion. Recent rulings, such as the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ deci
sion to uphold the University of
Washington Law School’s affirma
tive action policy — which ruled
that universities could consider eth
nic diversity in the recruitment and
admission of students — have
added weight to that ruling, but oth
ers have served to muddy the waters
over the years.
The University has made ethnic
diversity a priority in recent years,
even unveiling a five-year Campus
Diversity Plan in 1997 that out
lined ways to “immediately in
crease the ethnic and cultural di
versity of the student body.”
The specific goals of the plan in
clude increasing the population of:
• African American students
to 500
• Native American students to
500
• Asian American students to
2,000
• Hispanic students to 1,000
• International students to 2,000
While the overall percentage of
Among the most controversial
was the 1996 decision of the 5th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in Hop
wood v. Texas, which overturned a
District Court decision allowing con
tinued use of race as a factor in the
admissions process at the University
of Texas Law School, essentially con
tradicting the Bakke decision.
“I suspect that eventually the
Supreme Court will have to make
another judgment on the issue,”
Jernberg said, explaining that affir
mative action is an issue that in
minority students increased from
12.5 percent in fall 1997 to 13 per
cent in fall 2000, the numbers of
specific ethnic groups have con
tinued to fluctuate. According to
the University’s diversity Web
site, numbers of blacks and Native
Americans have increased slight
ly — from 253 to 259 and from
188 to 195, respectively — but the
number of Asian American stu
dents has fallen from 1,175 to
1,070. The largest increase has
been in the number of students
identifying themselves as “multi
ethnic,” which has increased from
57 in 1997 to 252 in 2000.
— Leon Tovey
spires a great many “complex mis
conceptions” that need clarifica
tion.
But until the U.S. Supreme Court
or the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals — which have jurisdiction
over the University of Oregon —
make such a decision, it seems un
likely that the administration will
make major changes to its admis
sions process.
Leon Tovey is a higher education reporter for
the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at leontovey@dailyemerald.com.
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Airline CEO forgoes
pay in wake of cuts
By Terry Maxon
The Dallas Morning News
American Airlines Inc. Chairman
and Chief Executive Donald J. Carty,
whose company is preparing to
eliminate 20,000 jobs, told employ
ees Monday that he’ll give up his
pay for the rest of the year and asked
them to volunteer to give up some
pay as well.
Carty’s offer to forgo pay comes
after a severe drop in passenger traf
fic and dramatic revenue losses
among U.S. carriers, precipitated by
the hijacking and crashes of four
jets. Two of them were American
Airlines planes.
Based on an annual salary of
$772,500, Carty would lose about
$200,000 in base pay, plus any
bonuses or other compensation he
may have qualified for as leader of
American and its parent, AMR
Corp.
Carty said he has asked unions to
let members participate in the vol
untary pay cut, “and since the deci
sion to participate is strictly up to
the individual, I expect the unions
will agree.”
Twenty cents of each $1 in pay
cuts will go toward an education
fund for the children of the Ameri
can Airlines pilots and flight atten
dants who died in the two Ameri
can crashes, and to help “unique
hardship cases” from the job cuts,
he said.
American, commuter airline
American Eagles Airlines Inc. and
TWA Airlines LLC will altogether
cut about 20,000 jobs in coming
weeks. In other cost-cutting moves,
American informed the 435 em
ployees at its 107 city ticket offices
around the nation that it Will close
all but seven offices at week’s end.
American also closed its Admi
rals Clubs in six airports last Friday:
Bush Houston Intercontinental Air
port; Cleveland; Detroit; Nashville,
Tenn.; Honolulu; and Phoenix. It
also has shut down its five Platinum
Service Centers: two at Dallas/Fort
Worth Airport and one each at Mia
mi, Chicago O’Hare and San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
American’s unions have com
plained that American is using ex
ceptions allowed during national
emergencies to avoid providing sev
erance pay, moving expenses and
other benefits.
(c) 2001, The Dallas Morning News.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.