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In article <5259@bacon.IMSI.COM> jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
>Kim A. Berry <kberry@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> writes:
>
>	I oppose U.C.  Berkeley's practice of having different
>	admission standards for each race. Each race competes for slots
>	only with members of their own race rather than against all
>	applicants. Special treatment of certain groups breeds
>	resentment.
>
>Oh, I don't know -- I know my time at UCB was better for them having
>given better access to targeted populations that otherwise would have
>gotten lost in the paperwork.  Face facts -- UCB gets tons more
>applicants than they have slots for.  If they simply took the top of
>that cream, how homogeneous might it be?
>
>How much *less* potential does some 4.0 student who came from the inner
>city and who, because of factors outside of his direct control (like
>nutrition) got a 1500 SAT score instead of the 1520 cutoff ...
>hypothetical numbers, but the point is that without that policy (which
>just got dropped?  didn't I see something in the papers last week about
>this?), what would UCB look like?
>
>/jordan

Then where do we draw the line on race-norming?

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And which race would yell the loudest if positions on College
football teams were race-normed, allowing only 12% of the
team to be black? 

Your points are valid and perhaps race-norming has its place.
But to what extend does it serve to reduce racism?

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        Kim Berry              kberry@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US