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Article: "Racial preferences are dead." (University of California Regent Ward Connerly)(Interview)
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- February 1, 1998
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Anti-quota activist Ward Connerly on the end of affirmative action and the battle for a raceless society
"It has been almost a year since you called me and asked me to meet with Jerry and Ellen Cook," University of California Regent Ward Connerly wrote to fellow Regent Clair W. Burgener in 1995. "As you know, I consented to meet with them....I must tell you that there are many moments when I regret having done so."
Jerry and Ellen Cook were two citizens on a mission. Their son James, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at San Diego, had been accepted to Caltech's doctoral program in computer science and MIT and Harvard's combined ...