Bakke v Board

The court declared quotas for race unconstitutional.

Arguments for bakke were that he was qualified to be able to go to college and he was a national meritt student with a 3.5 GPA. Bakke felt like he was being discriminated when universities did not accept him when he had better grades than others who were being accepted into the schools. Bakke claimed that the colleges having quotas for race, it broke the 14th amendment. Bakke stated that the admission process should have equal protection to get accepted into the college, however, when the college has quotas there is not equal chance for each applicant to be accepted.

Arguing for the board is that everyone that was accepted met the qualifications. This means that the minorities met all of the qualifications too. Even though they did accept minorities because of their achievements most of them where not able to go because of financial reasons. Each person was asked questions about race so they can have the environment of the school integrated. Most African Americans were with non or only a few African Americans, because the universities were using a liberal position when using affirmative action programs for the minorities. These actions were done after asking each race certain questions so the university can accommodate each race. The universities did this for the morality of the African Americans to get the same rights and opportunities as the whites in schools. The Universities want to allow different people a bunch of opportunities.