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Affirmative Action

Affirmative action is essential to the consideration of the college acceptance process. Without it, applications received from minorities and enrollment drop significantly. Since California eliminated affirmative action in 1996, the number of minority students admitted to the University of California-Berkeley Boalt Hall of Law dropped 66 percent from 162 to 55 in 1997, only one year. (www.princeton.edu) A decrease like this is detrimental because not only is it unfair to minorities who have experienced greater disadvantages than white students, but our society would suffer because a lack of diversity leads to a lack in progress.
The governor of California in 1996, Pete Wilson said after signing an executive order to eliminate affirmative action in his state, "What we owe the people is to fix what is wrong, to cure the unfairness and to set it right." (Chang, 18) He was implying that affirmative action was an unfair process. What Mr. Wilson gets wrong is......

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