By Any Means Necessary, an affirmative action group, is renewing efforts to overturn the state law that prohibits public universities from considering race in admissions.
The affirmative action group was originally formed by Asian employees at AT&T in the 1970's before Lucent, a maker of communications equipment based in Murray Hill, N.J., was spun off in 1996.
She had studied at Sarah Lawrence, and she belonged to the film editors' union and had worked on a Martin Scorsese movie and a Woody Allen movie, sponsored by a black "affirmative action" group called Harlem, Fight Back that was better known for disrupting sets and overturning catering tables than for getting its members hired.
Though the value of such programs is not in dispute, their racial exclusivity creates what the two anti-affirmative action groups call "ill feelings, racial polarization and a general fraying of the fabric that holds our multiracial society together".
"It would be one thing if the Supreme Court came out with a ruling that said 'Your policy is unconstitutional.' But until that happens, why would you abandon it?" The answer is simple, the anti-affirmative-action groups say: They have no intention of waiting to see what light, if any, the Supreme Court's ruling on admissions will shed on these auxiliary programs.
If that is the case, then the new focus on the SAT-II, a policy that results in better chances for other minorities, is doing little or nothing for African-Americans, the group affirmative action was devised for in the first place -- one that has no special language or cultural frame that could be the subject of an entrance exam.
The DOJ had been signaling for months that it might side with the anti-affirmative action advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions in the Harvard suit, brought four years ago.
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Mr. Lewis did not resign from the association; he was still dead set against affirmative action, and the group carried that banner.
The sensitivity corresponded to the percentage of all affirmative answers in the group of patients with MOH (ability of detection of MOH cases).
