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UPDATES OF THE WEEK  May
24, 2001:
Hi, I'm finally back in Stockton. Finals and classes are over. I've finished my first year at Berkeley. Next year will be my last, but hopefully I can extend it for another semester because Berkeley is just so much fun and I want to take up an Education Minor. It's about a week before I go to Michigan for that National Conference for Affirmative Action. By the way I am part of BAMN (Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and Fight for Integration and Equality By Any Means Necessary) and this organization's been responsible for building "the New Civil Rights Movement" by focusing on bringing back Aff Act in the University of California system. Yes, since the passage of SP-1 and SP-2, there has been drastic drops in Black, Latino, and Native American enrollment in UC Berkeley, and also huge drops in the hiring of women staff/faculty. What was happening was institutional resegregation of the top two universities in the UC system, where increasingly students of color are being filtered out of UCLA and Cal. Guess
what? On May
16th of this year, the UC Regents voted unanimously (22-0) to "RESCIND
SP-1 and SP-1" which are the 2 resolutions that Ward Connerly (sell
out Regent) drafted in 1995 that took away Aff Act in the UCs, and eventually
launching an anti-Aff Act campaign throughout California (which led to
Prop 209) and other anti-Aff Act events nationwide. ALthough many
claim that the vote was just symbolic, it was truly testing the limits
of the law, which could mean that in the future, there's this good chance
of breaking and doing away with Prop 209.
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