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Article: Not Just Black & White: Their classmate made history; they just wanted to be doctors. Now, as the Supreme Court prepares to redefine affirmative action for the first time in a quarter century, the class of 1982 looks back at the challenges it has overcome and the obstacles that still remain.(former medical students at the University of California, Davis, describe their lives and opinions about affirmative action)
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- Newsweek
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- June 30, 2003
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Byline: Debra Rosenberg
Sylvia Shaw had encountered plenty of obstacles on the road to medical school. But when she arrived for the first day of classes at the University of California, Davis, in the fall of 1978, she found one more: a throng of protesters and camera crews. They were there to mark the arrival of her famous classmate, Allan Bakke, a white student who'd sued for reverse discrimination after he was twice rejected--and got in only after his case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Bakke had complained about students like Shaw, an African-American who was accepted under a special-quota program. Now a Los Angeles endocrinologist, Shaw still ...
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