Resolution for a Letter of Solidarity to the University of California at Berkeley Student Government
Introduced: March 4, 2001
Sponsors: Erika Dowdell, Jessica Curtin, Defend Affirmative Action Party
Whereas, the student government of the University of California at Berkeley (the Associated Students of the University of California, ASUC) has called on the UC regents to reverse their ban on affirmative action in the UC system this spring.
Whereas, in solidarity with the ASUC, numerous student organizations, every major teachers' and professors' union in California, many labor unions, the California National Organization for Women, the ACLU, the San Francisco School Board and well over 500 UC professors have all supported the effort to reverse the ban on affirmative action in the UC system.
Whereas, the current national attack on affirmative action was begun by the UC regents in the summer of 1995.
Whereas, the UC regents reversing their ban on affirmative action will have a positive effect on the national debate over affirmative action in higher education.
Whereas, this is a question of national education policy that will effect higher education across the country, including the University of Michigan.
Whereas, the University of Michigan is in the middle of the key legal fight over the fate of affirmative action and the steps achieved toward the integration of higher education.
Whereas, the reversal of the ban on affirmative action in the UC system will send a positive message to the country including the courts that affirmative action must be defended.
Therefore be it resolved, the Michigan Student Assembly will send a letter supporting the ASUC's call to reverse the ban on affirmative action in the UC system to both the ASUC and to the Regents of the University of California.
Further be it resolved, MSA calls on the Affirmative Action Task Force to carry out this resolution.
Passed: March 12, 2001 22 for, 2 against, 4 abstaining