AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Contents:

First, several pieces by Norman Matloff. Prof. Matloff was formerly Chair of the faculty committee on Affirmative Action, and has long been active in committees and programs aimed at improving conditions for minorities and women.

• Matloff's San Francisco Chronicle op-ed piece on the court-ordered Affirmative Action admissions policy at Lowell High School, and his renewed call in the Chronicle five years later.

• Matloff's Los Angeles Times op-ed piece on Affirmative Action admissions policy in the University of California.

• Matloff's op-ed piece in Asian Week, a national Asian-American weekly.

• Matloff's 1990 Asian Week article answering the charge that affirmative action was resulting in discriminatory practices toward Asian-Americans in UC Berkeley admissions.

• Matloff's op-ed piece in the King Hall (UC Davis) Law School Advocate, on Affirmative Action admissions policy in the universities.

• One by Lawrence Siskind, former special counsel on immigration to Presidents Reagan and Bush.

• Another viewpoint, from prominent Latino scholar Harry Pachon.

• Jerry Cook's detailed analysis of university admissions data regarding minorities.

• A Web link to the July 5, 1995 San Francisco Examiner op-ed piece by Lora Jo Foo and Laura Ho of the Asian Law Caucus.

A Web link to the February 9, 1995 San Francisco Chronicle op-ed piece by Hugh Price, president of the Urban League.

Another Web link, to a site on affirmative action from a conservative point of view.

A Web link to Arthur Hu's conservative Web site, which includes some of his Asian Week columns on affirmative action and race relations. He also has a transcript of an affirmative action debate.

Another anti-affirmative action site.

A site devoted to promoting the California Civil Rights Initiative.

Virginia Postrel's call for meritocracy, in the October 1995 issue of Reason Magazine. The opposite point of view is expressed by Dr. Harry Pachon of the Tomas Rivera Center.

Report on affirmative action to President Clinton by his staff. Gives history of affirmative action, etc.

A special issue of The New Democrat (the Democratic Leadership Council's official magazine) devoted to discussion of affirmative action. Contributors include economist and social critic Joel Kotkin, sociologist Seymour Lipset, Urban League executive director Hugh Price, black conservative economist Glenn Loury, etc.

A very comprehensive Web site on affirmative action at UC Santa Barbara.

A Wall Street Journal article in which Prof. John Choon Yoo writes in opposition to affirmative action.