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6 Tuesday, September 4, 2001 Ruling Challenges UGa. Policy By Monica Chen Staff Writer A federal court ruled Monday that the University of Georgia’s affirmative action policy was unconstitutional, raising ques tions about the use of affirmative action in college admissions nationwide. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld two previous courts’ rul ings on the case, which was filed by three white students who were denied admis sion to the university in the fall of 1999. Citing that the policy violates the Equal Protection Clause in the U.S. Constitution, the court’s opinion stated that it is incomplete, rigid and arbitrary. “A policy that mechanically awards an arbitrary ‘diversity’ point to each and every non-white applicant... and severe ly limits the range of other factors rele vant to diversity ... violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the opinion stated. In a written statement to the press, University of Georgia President Michael Adams stated the university is “clearly disappointed in the court’s decision.” “We certainly respect the court, but may have a differing opinion about whether the university's admissions pro gram is ‘narrowly tailored,’” it stated. UGa., the flagship of Georgia’s uni versity system, was integrated in 1961. “Studying Abroad Can Change Your Life ” Come and find out about UNC Spring Semester in Montpellier FRANCE Informational Meeting Where: Dey Hall, Room 113 UNC-Chapel Hill When: Wed., Sept 5, 2001 • 4:00-5:00 pm Video followed by discussion withformer Program participants. For directions, call (919) 962-0154 or look us up at web: http://www.unc.edu/depts/mont email: mont@unc.edu .“1 have grown to love Montpellier and this beautiful city will be a part of me forever. ” - 2001 Participant initiative? Please attend our presentation for University of North Carolina students interested in: • Corporate Finance/M&A Tuesday, September 4 7:00-9:00pm Carolina Inn All majors welcome Strength lies within Visit us at ipmorganchase.com/careers f JPMorgan Since 1996, the admissions policy has calculated a Total Student Index for stu dents who are placed in the pool for fur ther consideration. TSI is based on a com bination of weighted academic, extracur ricular, demographic as well as race points and effectively grants students of non white skin color bonus admission points. TSI only affects about 10 percent of stu dents admitted to the campus every year. UGa. Law School Professor Milner Ball said that even with an affirmative action admissions policy, minorities still constitute a very small portion of the student population. “(The people who integrated this uni versity) would have never dreamed that 40 years later, there “The question is whether (UGa. will) he able to implement a program that will conform to the-guidelines.” Milner Ball UGa. Law School Professor would be so few black students here,” Ball said. “We have only 6 percent. “The university can’t continue doing what it was doing,” he said. “The ques tion is whether they’ll be able to imple ment a program that will conform to the guidelines.” UGa.’s administration declined to comment on the ruling. Russ Willard, spokesman for the Georgia Attorney General’s Office, said State & Nation UGa. officials had not yet determined a course of action. “We are still in discus sion with the university regarding whether or not to continue appealing.” Federal courts throughout the coun try have been striking down affirmative action policies, questioning the rele vance and definition of diversity in cases from the University of Texas School of Law in 1996 to the University of Michigan Law School this year. Herb Davis, associate director of undergraduate admissions at UNC, said the University’s admissions policy is in no need of revising. “Every student is evaluated as an individual based on their individual experience,” Davis said. “We have a qualitative evaluation. Not every African-American or Asian or Hispanic student is looked at the same way.” Ball said affirmative action, a contro versial part of admissions policies, should be decided upon soon. “There’s a lot of these cases in the cir cuit courts right now,” he said. “It’s time for the Supreme Court to make a deci sion.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. Do you suffer from major depression with atypical features such as overeating, oversleeping and feelings of rejection? • Depressed mood • Loss of interest in activities • Trouble with memory or concentration • Low self esteem • Low energy • Sleeping more than usual • Significant increase in appetite or weight gain • Over-reactive to life events • Stormy relationships Maybe we can help. The UNC-CH Psychiatry Department (under the direct supervision of Barbara Crockett, MD) needs volunteers for a research study. We want to compare the effectiveness, safety, and sexual side effects of an investigational medicine with paroxetine and placebo. For more information, call Dr. Crockett at 843-8084. UNC to Receive Grant from IBM By Michael Davis Staff Writer IBM announced Wednesday that UNC-Chapel Hill will be one of seven N.C. universities receiving part of a $6.3 million grant from the corporation. UNC-CH will be awarded $1.3 mil lion from the grant for hardware, soft ware and research grants. Other universities receiving grants include N.C. State University, UNC- Charlotte, N.C. Agricultural & Technical University, Wake Forest University, East Carolina University, Duke University and Meredith College. IBM spokesman John Lucy said the recent growth of the Internet prompted the grants. “We realize that within the next 10 years there is going to be a growth of information like no one has ever seen before,” he said. Lucy said UNC-CH’s portion of the grant was indirectly related to the Carolina Computing Initiative because of the ongoing partnership between UNC-CH and IBM. He said IBM wishes to work with UNC-CH to pursue e-business, a term coined by the company to describe the relationship between the Internet and business. A portion of the money will be used for course development that will influence e business, Lucy said. Andy Lindos, program director of the IBM Research Triangle Park Center for Advanced Studies, said two-thirds of the $500,000 allotted to UNC-CH for hard ware will be used by Internet Technology Services for multi-media support. Lindos added that the remainder of the money set aside for hardware will go to the UNC-CH Department of Computer Science. UNC-CH computer science Professor Don Smith has received much of the money geared toward the department to fund his research and classes in e-business. He said the grant for his program was dispersed over time, starting in October 2000. Smith said his amount was a cred it for $165,000 in hardware from IBM. The money is being used to build labo ratories for project development. Computer Science 190, a course which PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS? • ||l DTH/KIMBERLY CRAVEN Two-year-old Conrad and his 3-year-old sister, Catherine, sit at the base of Silent Sam and count pennies. The children fluently speak both French and English after their family lived in France for the three years. What Is Zen? 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Hr Aim CARE (EJip iailg cEai HM studies enterprise computing, begm this fall using the hardware given to Smjh. “It’s going to give students dediiated access to high-performance compiling systems in this course,” Smith said. He said the lab will serve several pur poses because it will be available duifng the summer months for research. Lucy said the technology available from this grant ultimately will better both the state’s universities and econo my. “(UNC-CH) and other university are seeing that in order to compete ia global economy, being computer liter ate is absolutely essential.” The State & National Desk can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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