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I W B , Obaarver UC-Davis (Continued from p .l col.6> presented fairly and clearly to the Court. The Bahke case doesn't do this." Donald Reidhaar, chief attorney for the UC Regents, denies the University pre sented a weak case, The written evid ence submitted to the court by UC. he says, “included a great deal of statistical information and documentation. “The case fairly and squarely presents the issue of admissability ” of UC's special program for minorities, he says. T h e (U.3. Supreme) Court will find some way to rule without undermining the pro 1 T ' ‘ ' i ~ I jum * Hampton receive« contribution for March of Dimes from a neighbor. l*ane was one of a group of young people assisting Marilyn Sykes, Mother s March coordinator for the Adams district. PMSC receives winterizing grant The Portland Metropolitan Steering Committee (PMSC) has been notified by the Community Service Administration that it will receive a grant of $23,400 for an Energy Conservation Program. The grant will enable PMSC to weatherize forty nine low income homes in Multno mah County. W eath erizatio n includes applying storm windows and weatherstripping. PMSC will also conduct two energy conservation/weatherization consumer conferences. PMSC has participated in the attempt to alleviate suffering brought on by cold weather. Multnomah County's 66,000 low income persons are hit harder by cold weather because they often IfviiTri sub standard housing and cannot afford ade quate fuel. PMSC has obtained utilities and fuel during crisis, provided tempor ary winterization, and provided more extensive winterizing and repair through the Community Rehabilitation and Em ployment Program (CREPI. Funds avail able for this type of program for the poor have fallen far below the need. PMSC has received $611,700 in annual grant monies for continuation of programs including: Administration, Family Action Credit Union. Housing Program, Transportation Division, Economic Dev elopment, Youth Development, Native American Youth Association. Youth Jus tice Clinic, and the Sellwood/Moreland Youth Workshop, and three neighbor hood »ervice centers: Albina Action Center, North Community Action Council and Portland Action Committees To gether. versity of California system. James Bell, a spokesman for the Black I jiw Students Association at UC's Hast ings College of Law, points to one reason UC may have taken its stand. ‘T h e UC Regents couldn’t admit they discrimin ated in the past or they would have been subject to suits from third world people," grams.“ L E G A L ISSUES IN C A L IF O R N IA The California Supreme Court’s ruh g in favor of Bakke was based on three conclusions. First, it ruled that Bakke was better qualified than the minority students admitted under UC-Davis special program -a point disputed by UC. Minority lawyers object to this conclu sion, arguing that the standardized tests and grade point averages that make up a good part of UC's criteria for admission are culturally biased against non-whites. The court's second conclusion was that UC-Davis was not guilty of "past discrim ination." The Supreme Court has often required proof of such past discrimination before ruling affirmative action programs constitutional. In this case, UC took the position that it had no discriminated in the past-a stand that has led to the most bitter criticism from minorities, who believe it severely weakened UC's case. While the California Supreme Court was considering the case, the American Medical Sudents Association filed a brief pointing out that in the Davis Medical School's first year, 1968, it admitted no Black or Chicano students, and the next year only one Chicano and two Blacks were enrolled among a class of 50. Comparing this to the fact that Blacks and Chicanos make up 20 percent of California’s population, the brief argued that Davis “had no choice but to take affirmative action to remedy the de facto Saper Shopping Centers Help Lower yoar Cost of Living ■ 7’ .-’Sri Your ne a rb y Fred M e ye r Super S hopping C enter is fille d w ith "P e o p le -P le a s in g " services to m ake your shoppin g m ore pleasan t W ide, spacious aisles, frie n d ly h e lp fu l clerks a n d undercove r parcel lo a d in g are |ust som e o f the "P e o p le -P le a s in g " services fo r you P lus...everyday low prices on thousands o f item s you use a n d need e v e ry d a y h e lp lo w e r yo u r cost o f liv in g Because w e 're o p e n 9 a m. to 10 p.m d a ily , in c lu d in g Sunday, you can shop w h e n you W ANT to, not w h e n you HAVE to. C om e in a n ytim e a n d " fu n s h o p " m a pleasant, re la x e d atm osphere. . Walnut Park ne . Interstate N. Lombard . Peninsula segregation." UC laywer Reidhaar responds that although the school's use of test scores and grades resulted in "nearly all white classes," there was “never any intent on the part of the school to discriminate against minorities." Other minority lawyers have argued that UC could have pointed to past discrimination in the elementary and secondary schools feeding into the U ni Killingsworth at Uni mon at Interstate 6 8 5 0 N. Lombard Plenty of Free a n d Easy P arkin g Open 9 am to 10 pm d a ily, including Sunday. I \ » MR»* Mit».- Is Trojan doing its job? ■So. Once on our economy sizes: Complete o r Buttermilk. 3kmt Jemima You bet. rather than racially disadvantaged. Some minority lawyers in California believe such alternatives can be de signed, though they doubt they will be as effective as racial quotas. But they fear that the conservative U.S. Supreme Court will take a much broader sweep, closing off even these options. If that happens, law and medical school deans across the country agree, there will be almost no minority students left in their schools. the option open to UC that least discrim inated against whites. For racial admis «ions programs, the courts require that a school prove there is “a compelling state interest” requiring the program and that there is no alternative to racial classifica tions. In this case, the court agreed that there was a compelling state interest in integrating the medical school but sug gested alternatives- like setting up a special program for the economically, he charges. Finally, the California court concluded that UC had failed to prove that a special ^missions program based on race was 3, 1377 Thurada?, O nce on our money-saving coupons. 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