8—Friday, July 19, 1974
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Jews and Blacks Appeal
for Guide on Education
(Continued from Page 1)
discuss and weigh the various
proposals available for treat-
ing this most complex issue."
Weinberger announced in
his letter that Terrel R. Bell,
U.S. commissioner of educa-
tion, and Peter R. Holmes,
director of HEW's office for
civil rights, will communi-
cate with the signers of the
New York letter "in the near
future."
Wilkins was one of the
New York letter signers.
Others were Benjamin R. Ep-
stein of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith; Ber-
tram H. Gold, American Jew-
ish CoMmittee; Vernon Jor-
dan, National Urban League;
Naomi Levin e, American
Jewish Congress; and Cesare
Porales, Puerto Rican Legal
Defense Fund.
Marco DeFunis of Seattle
had complained in 1971 that
he was the victim of- "reverse
discrimination" at the Uni-
versity of Washington Law
School in that he was barred
from admission to the school
while 37 others, mostly
Blacks, were allowed to en-
ter despite lesser qualifica-
tions.
The Supreme Court ruled
in a 5-4 decision last April
that his case was moot since
DeFunis under previous rul-
ings pending a Supreme
Court test, was allowed to
enter the school and was
about to be graduated.
In disclosing the action
taken by the six organizations
in New York, Commissioner
Norton said that "despite
varying positions" they held
on the DeFunis case, the
groups involved wished to
avoid polarization and were
in agreement on the goal of
"the elimination of all forms
of discrimination and the es-
tablishment of affirmative ac-
tions that will provide equal
opportunity within our consti-
tutional framework."
Meanwhile in New York,
the Anti-Defamation League
demanded that the City Col-
lege Center for Biomedical
Education admit "highly
qualified" applicants exclud-
ed from its September 1974
class simply because they
are white.
Arnold Forster, ADL's gen-
eral counsel, made the de-
mand in a letter to Alfred'
A. Giardino, chairman of the
Board of Higher Education.
Forster asserted that a re-
port by Chancellor Robert J.
Kibbee of the City Univer-
sity and "information obtain-
ed through our own investiga-
tion of the program," estab-
lished that "all too frequent-
ly considerations of race
dominated the admissions
procedure."
Forster went on to say:
"It is clear—as the Kibbee
report points out — that
changes must be made in the
admission procedure to pre-
vent future abuses and to
assure equitable treatment
for all applicants."
The letter underscored the
gravity with which the ADL
views the City College pro-
cedure by warning that "it
might well spawn another
DeFunis case.
Forster charged that the
goal of producing the best
possible doctors — whether
for the "inner city" as sug-
gested by Dr. Kibbee or for
the broader "urban com-
munity" as envisioned by City
College President Robert E.
Marshak—"appears to have
taken second place to racial
preference."
He also pointed out that
the selection procedures had
resulted in the September
1974 class consiting of 27
white and 41 "minority"
students.
Forster said that replace-
ment for those who declined
to accept places in the pro-
gram was made along strictly
racial lines—"black for black
and white for white etc."—
from four separate lists label-
ed "Caucasian, Black, Asian
and Latin."
He then went on to list
other "obvious examples" of
the use of preferential cri-
teria:
• 10.6 per cent of Caucasians
interviewed were invited to
join the program, although
two-thirds of them had high
school averages of 90 per
cent or higher, compared
to 21.7 per cent of "minority"
applicants interviewed, only
about one quarter of whom
had 90 per cent and over
averages.
• A total of 106 minority
students—and only 30 whites
—with averages less than 85
per cent or "no average,"
were selected for interviews
for this six-year accelerated
program. All six `of the stu-
dents accepted from this
category were of "minority"
background.
As noted in the Kibbee re-
port, the chance of being in-
vited into the program for
those interviewed was twice
as high for "minority" appli-
cants as for others.
Sex Education Plan
Blasted in Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An
announcement by Education
Minister Ahartm Yadlin that
he intended to introduce sex
education in all state schools
has raised a storm in re-
ligious circles here.
Rabbis and yeshiva heads
have organized "action com-
mittees" to "safeguard the
nation's sacred values."
They have flooded Yadlin
and some prominent Knesset
members with telegrams to
ban sex education in order to
"keep clean the soul of youth
and the boys who have not
sinned."
Yadlin announced the pro-
posed sex edtication courses
at an international synipo-
sium on sex education at-
tended by several hundred
sexologists, educators and •
psychologists from 30 coun-
tries.
What aroused the ire of
religious elements who have
denounced the plan as "im-
pure- education" is the fact
that state-run schools include
subsidized religious schools
as well as the secular institu-
tions. They have demanded a
meeting with Yadlin and
threatened to create turmoil
if he refuses.
ZOA. President Vows 'Commitment' Campaign.
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Claiming that "The Ameri-
can Jew has lost his Zionist
commitment," Dr. Joseph P.
Sternstein, the new president
of the Zionist Organization of
America, told a press con-
ference that during his term
of office the ZOA will con-
duct an intensive campaign
to educate the public and
restore that commitment.
Dr. Sternstein, rabbi of the
Conservative Temple Beth
Sholom in Roslyn Heights,
L. I., outlined the first step
of the campaign: a program
of seminars to expose young
adult Jews and their families
to Zionism,
"We are on the eve of a
titanic political struggle in
the Jewish community out-
side Israel and especially in
America," said Dr. Stern-
stein, citing the pressure
which is now building up
over this country's position
in the Middle East. However,
at the very time when
American Jewish support of
Israel is crucial, the Ameri-
can community has failed in
two important barometers of
Zionist strength, aliya and
tourism to Israel, he as-
serted.
He does not believe "If
you don't go on aliya, you
are not a Zionist," but Dr.
Sternstein said the recent de-
cline in aliya indicates an
over-all decline in American
Zionist consciousness.
"The precipitious drop
after the October war of
American tourism to Israel,"
said Dr. Sternstein, "is a re-
sult of our own failures. It
is my conviction that to re-
vive Zionism, ZOA must put
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