1A IVol. LXXXVIII, No. 36-S lC f 1~ aj [Friday, June 30, 1978 4.11111 i 1,1i n II Sixteen Pages Ann Arbor, Michigan W Ten Cents ducators expect little effect on admissions plans Daily Photo by JOHN KNOX A SUPREME ,COURT justice burns in effigy, capping a half-hour Diag rally protesting Wednesday's decision in the Allan Bakke case. Diag ralliers assail pro-Bakke decision By ELISA ISAACSON colleges as a factor in admissions, The Urging spectators to unite to fight the court ordered the University of Califor- "system," ralliers gathered on the nia-Davis medical school to admit Diag yesterday afternoon to protest the Bakke, a white engineer who claimed Supreme Court's decision favoring he had earlier been rejected due to a Allan Bakke. quota system that made race the sole Don Alexander of the Revolutionary reason for his exclusion. The medical Communist Youth Brigade told the ap- school had been setting aside 16 of 100 proximately 30 spectators that "quotas spacesrfor minorities, are in the heart of affirmative action The real thrust is not aimediat and without quotas you don't have af- whether Allan Bakke gets into medical firmative action." school," Alexander told the crowd. He r e .said the high court was trying to get WEDNESDAY'S 5-4 Supreme Court public support of the popular argument decision held racial quotas uncon- against quotas: that minorities have stitutional but acknowledged in vague achieved equality in the United States terms that race could be used by See DIAG, Page 10 By APandUPI Educators across the country yester- day said the Supreme Court's Bakke decision will have little or no effect on their admissions policies. They said they encourage minority enrollment with affirmative action programs, but denied the use of racial quotas. The court, on Wednesday, ruled that the strict quotas imposed by a Califor- nia medical school were illegal. It also said, however, that race could be used as a criterion for admission. A SPOT CHECK of about two dozen states showed that most college and university officials believe the ruling will allow them to continue special minority programs. "This decision probably will not alter the . . . admissions policies one bit," said Dr. Allen Mathies Jr., dean of the medical school at the University of Southrn California. "We have dealt with all applicants in the same manner with a single admissins committee. In making admissions decisions, we have taken into account all factors . . ." The Supreme Court decision came in the case of Allan Bakke, 38. Bakke, who is white, charged that he was denied admision to the University of Califor- nia's medical school at Davis because of the school's policy of setting aside 16 or 100 available positions in each en- tering class for minority applicants. THE ASSOCIATION of American Medical Colleges Thtirsday greeted the Supreme Court decision in the Allan Bakke case as one that should boost, rather than deter, the admission of minority students. "Most of the medical schools are using admissions procedures which we feel fall within the views of the court," said Dr. John Cooper, association president. "As a matter of fact, the decision ... removes some past under- tainties and should stimulate efforts to increase the admission of under- represented minorities." The association, reprenting all of the nation's 124 medical schools, said about 9 percent of the 60,000 medical students across the land are minority members, a figure it hopes to build to about 12 percent. DR. JOHN GRONVALL, dean of the University of Michigan Medical School, said the decision provides institutions with "the opportunity to continue and expand their diversity. The respon- sibility is now on the medical schools to increase their opportunities for 'Most of the medical schools are using admis- sion procedures which we feel fall within the views of the court.' -Dr. John Cooper, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges minority students." Dr. Louis Sullivan, dean of the predominantly black School of Medicine at Morehouse College in Atlanta, shared Cooper's sentimen- ts-and thus disagreed with some other black leaders who viewed the decision a setback to minority advancement. Sullivan told reporters at the association's news conference that "the decision of the court in affirming the use of race as a positive criteria in evaluating applicants will actually See ADMISSIONS, Page 10 Panel asks cut in 'U' allotment By MICHAEL ARKUSH Special tothe Daily LANSING-A special conference committee of state senators and representatvies yesterday decided to seek a $1 million cut in University appropriations from the Senate approved higher education budget for the 1978-79 fiscal year. The committee met yesterday to iron out differences in the Senate and House recommendations for the total higher education budget. The Senate recommendation is $617.492 million, while the House proposal is $631 million. Panel members agreed to aim for a final figure close to $620 million. SEN. BILL HUFFMAN (D-Madison Heights), co- chairman of the committee, instructed panel members to find appropriate areas where state allotments to the University could be sliced. "Let's take a million out of each of the big three (Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State) and we'll be all right. Find out the right area where we caii take out a million from the University of Michigan without seriouslf hurting it," Huffman told the committee. Huffman said the committee would try to slice the scheduled allotment to the University's Medical School. He said the allocation to the Medical School is already high and could probably afford to be cut. THE HOUSE RECENTLY approved a budget bill giving $137.5 million to the University. This would represent a $14.6 million increase over this year's allotment. The committee is pursuing an ap- proximately $134 million allotment-a $1 million decrease from the Senate's recommendation. Ann Arbor Representative Perry Bullard, who said Wednesday he expected a $3 million cut, said he was pleased with the committee's recommendation. "This shouldn't hurt the University too badly," Bullard said. Richard Kennedy, the Vice-President for State Relations and Secretary of the University was unavailable for comment.