LOS ANGELES -- Eighteen years after California approved a landmark ballot measure to ban affirmative action, the nation's most diverse state is wrestling again with how to boost the representation of minorities on the campuses of its public universities. In January, the state Senate passed a bill proposing a constitutional amendment that would
Bid To Revive Affirmative Action In Calif. Roils Asian Americans
Groups of Asian Americans have come forward to stop an effort to reinstitute affirmative action at California’s public universities, claiming the proposed change would be detrimental to Asian American students.