[1415] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Wither MIT's AA? [re: Chronicle article]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Z Maze)
Tue Jun 24 16:03:27 2003
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:28:35 -0400
From: David Z Maze <dmaze@CAG.LCS.MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <1056460879.3ef8504f3a67c@webmail.mit.edu>
At 09:21 AM 6/24/03, Jacob W Faber wrote
>Notes on Affirmative Action: Points are not directly given based on race,
>gender, ethnicity, geography, etc. as in the U. Mich. case. The places where
>AA comes in to play are as following:
>1)recruitment or applicants
>2)if a minority candidate is rejected in the first review of applications
>(where 60% of all applications are denied), the application is reviewed by
>Lorelle Espinosa, who works for Admissions.
I just talk to a Denise in Lorelle Espinosa's office. Apparantly
applications undergo through reviews. After that, Ms. Espinosa reruns
minority applicants to ensure "nothing's been missed." I'm not sure how
well documented this process is, but it sounds a lot like what service
promotion boards do--give extra consideration to minority candidates to
ensure that no bias interfered with their capacity to compete. Now refer
back to the briefs submitted by CEO and CIR and you'll see not even the
plaintiffs argued that due diligence given to minority applicants is
unconstitutional. It's the "point of competition," where a racial "plus"
can only be given as a determining factor, that they had a problem with.
I think if you read the Gratz and Grutter decisions together, you can find
an implicit rejection of common notion of race as a "plus"
factor. Ultimately, the only affirmative action system endorsed by the
nexus of these two opinions is that practiced in the military--where race
plays a role only to ensure similar attention has been given to all
applicants in the face of past racial discrimination.
The next round of litigation (which could start today) will undoubtedly
address those facts submitted without dispute into the record.
Rev Prez
P.H. Cannady
revprez@mit.edu
(617) 452 4470
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