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ISSUES - Affirmative Action, Diversity & Multiculturalism


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  • A Mixed Blog: Affirmative Action & Diversity

    Off the Beat: All's Well That Ends Well
    by Jennifer Christian (The Daily Californian)
    http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=17242 (December 10, 2004)

    Connerly to step down as regent
    by Matt Krupnick (Contra Costa Times)
    http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/10375781.htm (December 9, 2004)

    Cotas na Universidade: achatamento e luta de classes
    by Luis Dufaur (ASSOCIAÇÃO DOS FUNDADORES DA TFP)
    http://www.tfp-fundadores.org.br/principal.asp?IdTexto=117&pag=1&categ=2 (August 31, 2004)

    The Decline of Affirmative Action
    by Wendy McElroy (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/mcelroy8.html (July/August 2004)

    True Equality: The Unifying 'Field' That Trumps Race
    by Adam Abraham (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/abraham5.html (May/June 2004)

    On 'Birthing' Equal Perception
    by Adam Abraham (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/abraham6.html (May/June 2004)

    Consistently Aggravating
    by James A. Landrith, Jr. (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/landrith9.html (May/June 2004)

    Frist Priority: Medical Affirmative Action
    by Steve Sailer (VDare)
    http://www.vdare.com/sailer/frist_health.htm (April 25, 2004)

    Diversity's False Solace
    by Walter Benn Michaels (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/magazine/11ESSAY.html (April 11, 2004)

    The Conservative Cookie Rebellion
    by Wendy McElroy (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/mcelroy7.html (February/March 2004)

    Where’s The Love? The Bitter ‘Voice’ of Today’s Affirmative Action Proponents
    by Adam Abraham (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/abraham4.html (February/March 2004)

    The ‘Life Dividends’ of Equality and Excellence: Finding Reasons to Set ‘Differential Prejudices’ Aside
    by Adam Abraham (The Multiracial Activist)
    http://www.multiracial.com/readers/abraham.html (November/December 2003)

    Critical Mass of Minorities on Campus: The case of Julian Abele
    by Chett (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/chett3.html (October/November 2003)

    Are calculus professors racist?: The consequences of Affirmative Action
    by Chett (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/chett4.html (October/November 2003)

    Michigan GOP says: 'Colorblind = Division, not Unity'
    by Chett (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/chett2.html (August/September 2003)

    Voters may decide affirmative action: Activist Connerly to launch Mich. initiative to put U-M policies on ballot in Nov. 2004.
    by Joel Kurth (The Detroit News)
    http://www.detnews.com/2003/schools/0307/03/a01-209173.htm (July 3, 2003)

    Vote ahead on race issues? California critics of affirmative action are organizing a campaign to put initiative on Michigan ballot in November 2004
    by Liz Cobbs (The Ann Arbor News)
    http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news-4/1057070567103100.xml (July 1, 2003)

    Student Sues for Admission to Schools for Hawaiians
    by Adam Liptak (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/national/29SCHO.html (June 29, 2003)

    The Worst Day in Civil Rights History
    by John H. McWhorter (Frontpage Magazine)
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8555 (June 24, 2003)

    Justices Back Use of Race for College Admissions
    by Linda Greenhouse (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/23/politics/23WIRE-COURT.html?ex=1057204800&en=a1bb8e4ef13a0d19&ei=5070 (June 23, 2003)

    Hue and Cry on 'Whiteness Studies'
    by Darryl Fears (The Washington Post)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14386-2003Jun19.html (June 20, 2003)

    Solving the Diversity Dilemma
    by Amy Ziebarth (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/20 03/06/09/opinion/09ZIEB.html?ex=1056203080&ei=1&en=66c7e7da716dc616 (June 9, 2003)

    Minority Students With Complex Beliefs About Ethnic Identity Are Found to Do Better in School
    by David Glenn (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
    http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/06/2003060201n.htm (June 2, 2003)

    College-Bound Students Often Skip Race Question
    by Amy Argetsinger (The Washington Post)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A633 31-2003May31.html (June 1, 2003)

    How I Learned to Love Quotas
    by Jeffrey Rosen (The New York Times)
    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac t.html?res=F20B13FC3B550C728CDDAF0894DB404482 (June 1, 2003)

    The Wrong Way to Diversify
    by Ron Bronson, Jr. (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/bronson3.html (June/July 2003)

    The Ghost of Diversity
    by Glenn Ellmers (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/readers/mcneil6.html (April/May 2003)

    Toward 'Equal' Treatment: An Inoculation Against Special Treatment Viruses (STVs)
    by Adam Abraham (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/adam20.html (March/April 2003)

    Civil Rights, Libertarianism and Reclaiming the Dream
    by W. James Antle III (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/antle.html (February/March 2003)

    Is Diversity Good?
    by Harry V. Jaffa (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/jaffa.html (February/March 2003)

    Affirmative Action Insults Immigrant Contributions
    by Wendy McElroy (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/mcelroy3.html (February/March 2003)

    Sins of admission
    by John Leo (U.S. News and World Report)
    http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030127/opinion/27john.htm (January 27, 2003)

    Let's Get Race Out of the Equation Once and Forever
    by Jim Sparkman (ChronWatch)
    http://www.chronwatch.com/editorial/contentDisplay.asp?aid=1367 (January 22, 2003)

    Another shade of black
    by Suzy Hansen (Salon)
    http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/01/14/mcwhorter/index.html (January 14, 2003)

    Open Minded Education
    by Ron Bronson, Jr. (The Multiracial Activist)
    http://www.multiracial.com/readers/bronson3.html (December 2002/January 2003)

    A Marine takes on HUD
    by Ward Connerly (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/connerly5.html (December 2002/January 2003)

    Campus Collectivism, the "Privilege" Notion & Default Political Persuasions
    by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor33.html (October 1, 2002)

    Performance Anxiety
    by Jeremy Lott (Reason)
    http://www.reason.com/0210/cr.jl.performance.shtml (October 2002)

    Racial Profiling
    by John McWhorter (The Wall Street Journal)
    http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1031881701210814115,00.html (September 13, 2002)

    Black Enough, or Liberal Enough?
    by Radley Balko (FOXNews.com)
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,62871,00.html (September 12, 2002)

    Freedom of Association
    by Walter Williams (WorldNetDaily)
    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28825 (September 4, 2002)

    Crossing the Line
    by Kevin Deenihan (The Daily Californian)
    http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=9284 (August 30, 2002 )

    The New Politics of Diversity
    by Paul Starr (The American Prospect)
    http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/11/starr-p.html (June 17, 2002 )

    Bias in the Name of Diversity
    by Terry Eastland (The Weekly Standard)
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/270hsbkq.asp (May 21, 2002)

    For more balance on campuses
    by Christina Hoff Sommers (The Christian Science Monitor)
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0506/p11s02-coop.html (May 6, 2002)

    Old Whine, New Bottle: A recycled, last-ditch attempt to influence two court cases.
    by Roger Clegg (National Review)
    http://www.nationalreview.com/clegg/clegg041502.asp (April 15, 2002)

    Court "Remedies" Union Discrimination with More Racial Tracking
    by Diane Schachterle (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/schachterle2.html (April/May 2002)

    A new racist strategy
    by Walter Williams (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20020227.shtml (February 27, 2002)

    Preferential Damage
    by Carol Iannone (New York Press)
    http://www.nypress.com/15/9/taki/2.cfm (Volume 15, Issue 9)

    'Butter' probes hidden racism
    by M.S. Mason (The Christian Science Monitor)
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0222/p19s01-almp.html (February 22, 2002)

    Colorism
    by Armstrong Williams (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Armstrongwilliams/aw20020129.shtml (January 29, 2002)

    Diversity II
    by Walter Williams (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20020124.shtml (January 24, 2002)

    King's dream and the 'M' word
    by Jeff Jacoby (The Boston Globe)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/024/oped/King_s_dream_and_the_M_word+.shtml (January 24, 2002)

    Has the dream become reality?
    by Kathleen Parker (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/kathleenparker/kp20020123.shtml (January 23, 2002)

    Diversity
    by Walter Williams (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20020116.shtml (January 16, 2002)

    Race not at heart of America
    by Don Feder (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/donfeder/df20011219.shtml (December 19, 2001)

    Diversity versus 'diversity'
    by Thomas Sowell (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20011116.shtml (November 16, 2001)

    Unfinished civil rights agenda
    by Walter Williams (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20011114.shtml (November 14, 2001)

    Schools can take diversity too far
    by Andrew J. Levay (Portland Press Herald)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/302/oped/Schools_can_take_diversity_too_far+.shtml (October 29, 2001)

    Afro-Brazilians fighting for affirmative action
    by Kevin G. Hall (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
    http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/10/09/national/BRAZIL09.htm (October 9, 2001)

    Multiracial Brazil Planning Quotas for Blacks
    by Larry Rohter (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/02/international/americas/02BRAZ.html (October 2, 2001)

    A Bid for Justice
    by Peter Wood (National Review)
    http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-wood081601.shtml (August 16, 2001)

    Shake down the law
    by Paul Craig Roberts (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr20010816.shtml (August 16, 2001)

    Rejecting Admission Discrimination
    by Roger Clegg (National Review)
    http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/clegg070901.shtml (July 9, 2001)

    Playing the Loser: Why are California's education and political leadership so receptive to demands for racial preferences?
    by Cristopher Rapp (National Review)
    http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment042701b.shtml (April 27, 2001)

    Demoralizing young blacks
    by Walter Williams (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20010404.shtml (April 4, 2001)

    The slippery slope of affirmative action
    by Armstrong Williams (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Armstrongwilliams/aw20010404.shtml (April 4, 2001)

    Diversity, the new uniformity
    by Paul Greenberg (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/pg20010404.shtml (April 4, 2001)

    Affirmative action is on the ropes again
    by Linda Chavez (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/lc20010403.shtml (April 3, 2001)

    Affirmative action hanging on by a thread
    by Mona Charen (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/mc20010403.shtml (April 3, 2001)

    Liberal Dose of Nonsense on Affirmative Action
    by Steve Dunleavy (The New York Post)
    http://www.nypost.com/04022001/commentary/27838.htm (April 2, 2001)

    What does affirmative action affirm?
    by Wendy McElroy (ifeminists.com)
    http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2001/0327.html (March 27, 2001)

    Wasn't Mended
    by M. Royce Van Tassell (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/vantassell3.html (February/March 2001)

    Race Is Not A College Qualification
    by Norah Vincent (The Village Voice)
    http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0102/vincent.shtml (January 10-16, 2001)

    . . . but First, Let's End the Preference Paradigm
    by Ward Connerly (The Los Angeles Times)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20001219/t000121022.html (December 19, 2000)

    Goodbye, Racial Preferences
    by Larry Elder (Frontpage Magazine)
    http://frontpagemag.com/elder/2000/le12-08-00.htm (December 10, 2000)

    Connerly addresses equality at Syracuse U.
    by Chris Jaikaran (Daily Orange)
    http://news.excite.com/news/uw/001024/politics-190 (October 24, 2000)

    Better Than Affirmative
    by Jeb Bush (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/15/opinion/15BUSH.html (September 15, 2000)

    Minority Enrollment Rises in Florida College System
    by Rick Bragg (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/083000fla-affirmative-action.html (August 30, 2000)

    Ward Connerly - The GOP's Missing Marcher
    by Michael W. Lynch (Reason)
    http://reason.com/bi/philly8-3.html (August 3, 2000)

    Florida colleges can't give special considerations to minorities, judge says
    by David Royse (FOX News/Associated Press)
    http://www.foxnews.com/national/0712/d_ap_0712_250.sml (July 12, 2000)

    The Do-Gooders' War on Merit
    by Michael Meyers (The New York Post)
    http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/32178.htm (July 3, 2000)

    Real affirmative action
    by Nat Hentoff (The Washington Times)
    http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/ed-column-2000619182028.htm (June 19, 2000)

    NAACP chairman calls anti-affirmative action One Florida plan a `grievous mistake'
    by Karla Schuster (The Sun-Sentinel)
    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,32000000000115296,00.html (June 15, 2000)

    Federal Court Tells Ohio to Set Aside Set-Asides
    by Lucas E. Morel (John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs)
    http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/oped/morel/00/ohio.html (June 2000)

    Drive to kill affirmative action ends
    by William Yardley (St Petersburg Times)
    http://www.sptimes.com/News/050900/State/Drive_to_kill_affirma.shtml (May 9, 2000)

    RACE PREFERENCES: Pro and Con
    Debate between Ward Connerly and William Bagley (The Independent Institute)
    http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/000425ipfTrans.html (April 25, 2000)

    A better path to diversity
    (The Christian Science Monitor)
    http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/04/11/p8s2.htm (April 11, 2000)

    Admissions of Minorities Rebounding in California
    by Barbara Whitaker (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/040500calif-affirm-edu.html (April 5, 2000)

    Higher Ed
    by Norah Vincent (The Village Voice)
    http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0013/vincent.shtml (March 29, 2000)

    A "poison" divides us
    by Alicia Montgomery (Salon)
    http://www.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/03/27/connerly/index.html?CP=SAL&DN=110 (March 27, 2000)

    Trading places
    by Michael Alvear (Salon)
    http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/03/13/discrimination/index.html?CP=SAL&DN=110 (March 13, 2000)

    Ending affirmative action proves harder than it looks
    by Warren Richey (The Christian Science Monitor)
    http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/03/10/p1s2.htm (March 10, 2000)

    My Fight Against Racial Preferences: A Quest Toward 'Creating Equal'
    by Ward Connerly (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
    http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i27/27b00601.htm (March 10, 2000)

    Civil Rights: What Went Wrong?
    by Abigail and Stephen Thernstrom (FrontPage Magazine and Wall Street Journal)
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/archives/racerelations/thernstroms01-17-00.htm (January 17, 2000)

    'Diversity': From Left to Far Left
    by Charles Fried (The Washington Post)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com:80/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/03/0101-010300-idx.html (January 3, 2000)

    Happy Opposites Day
    by Bruce Gottlieb (Slate)
    http://www.slate.com/HeyWait/99-12-09/HeyWait.asp (December 9, 1999)

    Why I'm Still Fighting Preferences in Florida
    by Ward Connerly (FrontPage Magazine)
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/archives/racerelations/connerly11-22-99.htm (November 18, 1999)

    What About Poor White People?
    by Nat Hentoff (The Washington Post)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/13/016l-111399-idx.html (November 13, 1999)

    Florida Plan Would Change Race-Based Admissions
    by Rick Bragg (New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/111199affirmative-action-edu.html (November 11, 1999)

    Jeb Bush weighs college plan that impacts affirmative action
    (The Miami Herald)
    http://www.herald.com/herald/content/digdocs/news/fladocs/067413.htm (November 7, 1999)

    Minorities No More
    by Chris Weinkopf (FrontPage Magazine)
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/cw/cw11-01-99.htm (November 1, 1999)

    Reclassified, Asians fear cuts in school assistance
    by Cindy Rodriguez (The Boston Globe)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/298/metro/Reclassified_Asians_fear_cuts_in_school_assistance+.shtml (October 25, 1999)

    Warning on ethnic success in school
    by Annie Nakao (San Francisco Examiner)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/hotnews/stories/17/minority_sun.dtl (October 17, 1999)

    Libertarian delegates endorse plan to end racial preferences
    (The Tampa Tribune)
    http://www.tampabayonline.net/news/flor1000.htm (October 11, 1999)

    Libertarians endorse movement to end affirmative action
    by Stella M. Chavez (Sun Sentinel)
    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,24500000000113244,00.html (October 10, 1999)

    Meritocracy, Interview With Nicholas Lemann
    (The Atlantic Monthly)
    http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba991007.htm (October 7, 1999)

    Job complaint recalls 'racial charade'
    by Tina Cassidy (The Boston Globe)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/271/metro/Job_complaint_recalls_racial_charade_+.shtml (September 28, 1999)

    We Shall Overcome-But Only Through Merit
    by Shelby Steele (FrontPage Magazine)
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/archives/racerelations/steele9-16-99.htm (September 16, 1999)

    Racial Issues Creep Into Bond Battle
    by Kate Folmar (The Los Angeles Times)
    http://www.latimes.com/excite/990914/t000082293.html (September 14, 1999)

    Protect the next generation from diversity do-goodism
    by Michelle Malkin (Jewish World Review)
    http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin081099.asp (August 10, 1999)

    Proxy War: Liberals denounce racial profiling. Conservatives denounce affirmative action. What's the difference?
    by Michael Brus (Slate)

    http://www.slate.com/Features/Profile/profile.asp (July 8, 1999)

    The other side of affirmative action
    by Thomas Sowell (Jewish World Review)
    http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell060899.asp (June 8, 1999)

    Diverse U. of Michigan Tries New Legal Tack
    by Steven A. Holmes (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/051199mich-affirm.html (May 11, 1999)

    Affirmative Action's Hidden Discrimination
    by Roger Hernandez (LatinoLink)
    http://www.latinolink.com/opinion/opinion99/0404orog.htm (April 4, 1999)

    Race-blind lottery chooses fewer blacks for magnet schools
    by Paul Donsky (The Tennessean)
    http://www.tennessean.com/sii/99/04/01/magnet01.shtml (April 1, 1999)

    Affirmative In-action?
    by Lucas Morel (John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs)
    http://ashbrook.org/publicat/oped/morel/99/affirmative_action.html (April 1999)

    Court Refuses to Examine Condemned Affirmative Action Program
    by Mark Helm (Hearst Newspapers)
    http://www.latinolink.com/news/news99/0329nafi.htm (March 29, 1999)

    An End to Racial Preferences
    by Nat Hentoff (The Washington Post)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/27/0151-032799-idx.html (March 27, 1999)

    Beyond Black and White: Affirmative Action in America
    Moderated by Professor Charles Ogletree (PBS)
    http://www.pbs.org/pov/tvraceinitiative/beyondblackandwhite/index.html (March 23, 1999)

    Recasting the Affirmative Action Debate
    by Jeffrey Fisher (IntellectualCapital)
    http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue189/item2521.asp (March 18, 1999)

    Issue of the Week: Affirmative Action in Focus
    (Policy.com)
    http://www.policy.com/issuewk/1999/0222_58/ (February 22, 1999)

    Affirmative-Action Dilemma Spreads in Public Schools
    by Tamar Lewin (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/112998educ-affirm-action.html (November 29, 1998)

    African American woman found others intolerant of her support of I-200
    by Kelly McBride (The Spokane Spokesman-Review)
    http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/init_113098.html (November 23, 1998)

    Affirmative Action Foes Cheer Gains
    by V. Dion Haynes (The Chicago Tribune)
    http://chicagotribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-9811230189,00.html (November 23, 1998)

    Some Minorities Are More Minor Than Others
    by Ron K. Unz (Wall Street Journal)
    http://www.onenation.org/1198/111698b.html (November 16, 1998)

    Opportunity Without Preference
    by D.W. Miller (Policy Review)
    http://www.policyreview.com/nov98/opportunity.html (November/December 1998)

    In a Battle Over Preferences, Race and Gender are at Odds
    by Sam Howe Verhovek (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/ballots/articles/102098was-affirm.html (October 20, 1998)

    The Brown bomber strikes Justice Thomas
    by Larry Elder (Jewish World Review)
    http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder082798.html (August 27, 1998)

    Broker Asserts Political Views Drew Pressure
    by Steven A. Holmes (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/ballots/articles/071098anti-affirm-action.html (July 10, 1998)

    Can blacks succeed without a Harvard degree?
    by George Cantor (The Detroit News)
    http://www.detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9805/23/cantor/cantor.htm (May 23, 1998)

    Washington State Set to Become Next Battleground Over Affirmative Action
    by Steven A. Holmes (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/ballots/articles/050498wash-affirmative.html (May 4, 1998)

    Race Preference In College Admissionsby Carl Cohen, Ph.D.
    (The Heritage Foundation)

    http://www.heritage.org/library/lecture/hl611.html (April 29, 1998)

    Arlington schools sued anew - Alternative program admissions challenged
    (Associated Press)

    http://www.jrnl.com/news/98/Mar/jrn13300398.html (March 1998)

    Admission plan draws opposition
    by Beatriz Perez (Arlington Journal)

    http://www.jrnl.com/news/98/Feb/jrn55090298.html (February 9, 1998)

    Back to Equality
    by Ward Connerly (IMPRIMIS)
    http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/1998/February/FebruaryPage1.html (February 1998)

    Letters: U-M affirming bias or diversity?
    (The Detroit News)
    http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9712/14/letter/letter.htm (December 14, 1997)

    Houston Voters Maintain Affirmative-Action Policy
    by Sam Howe Verhovek (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/ballots/articles/110697houston-affirm.html (November 6, 1997)

    Diversified admissions plan in mill
    by Beatriz Perez (Arlington Journal)

    http://www.jrnl.com/news/97/Nov/jrn55121197.html (November 1997)

    Magnet schools outreach plans recommended
    by Beatriz Perez (Arlington Journal)

    http://www.jrnl.com/news/97/Nov/jrn51121197.html (November 1997)

    Critics say the school wants to avoid lawsuites that could charge discrimination in admission standards
    by Rusty Hoover (The Detroit News)
    http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9707/04/07040049.htm (July 4, 1997)

    Race In America: Fairness or Folly?
    by Eric Pooley (TIME)

    http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/06/16/time/affirmative.html (June 23, 1997)

    Interview with Ward Connerly: 'Let's wipe (race) slate clean'
    (The Detroit News)
    http://detnews.com/1997/outlook/9703/09/03090001.htm (March 9, 1997)

    Clinton 'turning back the clock on civil rights,' Libertarians say
    (The Libertarian Party)

    http://www.lp.org/rel/961227-ccri.html (December 27, 1996)

    Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day
    by David Sacks and Peter Thiel (The Independence Institute)

    http://www.independent.org/tii/content/op_ed/asacks.html (October 12, 1996)

    Affirmative Action - It Will Never Be Enough
    by Elizabeth Wright (Issues & Views)

    http://www.concentric.net/~Issues/a-action.sht (Fall 1996)

    "Should Jews vote to dismantle affirmative action?" Racial preferences unfair
    by Lawrence J. Siskind (Jewish Bulletin of Northern California)
    http://www.jewishsf.com/bk960809/comm1.htm (August 9, 1996)

    Regent, Senator Trade Insults At State Hearing
    by Ryan Tate (Daily Cal)

    http://www.dailycal.org/Issues/02.21.96/senate.txt (February 21, 1996)

    Defend Affirmative Action! Oppose Racist Scapegoating! Fight for Communism!
    by Grover Furr

    http://www.shss.montclair.edu/english/furr/plpaffactn.html (February 16, 1996)

    Books on Affirmative Action


  • INTERRACIAL VOICE - Point-CounterPoint on Affirmative Action
  • The Atlantic Monthly - Race and Affirmative Action
  • The Washington Post - Affirmative Action Special Report
  • American Civil Rights Institute
  • Americans Against Discrimination and Preferences
  • National Center for Policy Analysis - Affirmative Action in Education
  • Anti-Racism & Discrimination Organizations & Websites
  • Return to The Multiracial Activist's Issues Directory


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