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A Look At The 1983-84
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Vol. 59, No. 3
Morehouse College, Atlanta
Friday, December 2, 1983
Win Jesse Win!
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER
ROBERT W. WOODRUFF. LIBRARY
Jackson Enters
Presidential Race
Desegregation Plan
By Lewis J. Patterson
Speculations as to whether or
not Jesse Jackson will enter the
race for president have been
cleared up as the civil rights
activist announced this week
that he will make a bid for the
nation’s highest office on the
democratic ticket.
The forty-two-year-old
Jackson is expected to choose a
woman as his running mate.
However, he would not say
whether she would be black or
white. He is calling for a new
leadership and a new coalition
within the Democratic party. He
said that blacks are asking for a
new covenant with the
Democratic party. Jackson
charged the democratic party
with running an all white cam
paign over an integrated voting
block.
Jackson, the founder and
president of Operation PUSH,
said that his candidacy will serve
a dual purpose. First he says, “It
will remove the oppressive
Reagan regime and secondly it
will work for partiy for blacks in a
white society.”
A number of prominent black
leaders, such as Atlanta Mayor
Nearly three out of four
Americans oppose racial quotas
in affirmative action programs
and think that all hiring and
promotion should be based
solely on merit, according to a
new poll by the Anti-Defamation
League.
According to the league, the
survey found 63 percent of all
respondents, representing a
cross section of the American
public, disapproved of giving
Andrew Young have said that
they would not support a
Jackson campaign for fear that it
might be devisive. Nevertheless,
the matter doesn’t seem to
dampen the hopes of the
presidential aspirant. “No can
didate can expect to have un
animous support from any given
community,” Jackson told Mike
Wallace on the CBS program 60
Minutes.
Jackson is expected to gear his
campaign toward winning votes
from young Black Americans.
For months now, Jackson has
been touring the country
heading a massive voter registra
tion campaign among blacks.
Some political analyst are
speculating that Jackson is plan
ning to run a symbolic campaign
designed to show the
democratic party that the black
vote is significant enough to
affect the outcome of a
presidential election. Jackson’s
candidacy is expected to take
support from democratic fron
trunner Walter Mondale,
thereby allowing support for
candidate John Glenn to be
significant enough to challenge
Mondale's lead in the race.
members of minorities special
advantages to rectify past dis
crimination.
Even a majority of the poll’s
non-white respondents, 52 per
cent, said that companies should
hire the most qualified
applicants regardless of race or
ethnic background and should
not be required by law to hire a
fixed percentage of members of
minorities.
The University System of
Georgia’s controversial desegrg-
tion plan won federal approval
October 7 after initial efforts to
settle the issue failed and the
USG was threatened with a
cutoff of federal funds.
I n the plan that was approved,
the proposal included a renewed
emphasis on minority - student
and faculty recruitment by all 33
of the USG schools and an
emphasis on on-campus aid
programs for minorities.
The approved plan also called
for giving the highest priority to
specific construction projects in
the 1984 budget to the three
predominately black USG in
stitutions - Fort Valley State,
Albany State, and Savannah
State.
The announced plan followed
months of discussions between
The league, which supports
affirmative action programs in
general but strongly opposes
those with racial quotas, said its
survey gave an unusually
detailed picture of the American
public’s view on affirmative
action and racial quotas.
But the results of the poll
appeared to differ in a number of
ways with some similar surveys
taken in recent years. For exam-
Georgia officials, including
Governor Joe Frank Harris, and
federal officials.
State NAACP officials, though,
were not totally satisfied with the
decision, according to news
reports.
During summer discussions,
an Atlanta - based civil rights
office demanded that the USG
Regents Test be abolished on the
basis of cultural bias. No action
was taken on the test in the
decision that was approved.
Georgia, and four other
southern states, had plans ap
proved in the October 7 deci
sion.
According to the plan, the
federal government has until
April 1 to decide if the plans are
progressing. If not, enforcement
efforts will begin by September
15, 1984.
pie, a poll taken early last year by
the Harris organization found
that 69 r percent of the
respondents favored affirmative
action provided there were no
quotas. A survey taken in 1981 by
Data Black Public Opinion Polls,
a national Black polling and
research organization, also
found that 57 percent of Black
voters vavored affirmative action
while 17 percent said it did more
harm than good.
Education
Cuts
Reagan Cuts
Spending on education and
social service programs has
dropped almost 20 percent since
the Reagan administration too
office in 1981, a Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) report has
found.
And in a new American
Federation of Teachers (AFT)
analysis of federal education
spending, AFT President Albert
Shanker charges President
Reagan with “a cover-up” of
administration funding requests
for education programs.
The AFT has been friendlier to
the president rather than other
education groups in the past. It
gave President Reagan a respect
ful welcome at its June, 1983
convention and willingly par
ticipated in his White House
conference in the wake of last
spring's release of several reports
criticising the quality of
American education.
By contrast, the National
Education Association — the
AFT’s larger teachers’ union rival
— refused to join the White
House conference or invite the
president to speak at its conven
tion, claiming Reagan had failed
to support education since his
days as governor of California.
For example, the government
will spend some 27.5 percent less
on Guaranteed Student Loans
between 1982 and 1985 than
Congress ordered it to in laws
passed in 1980.
All student aid programs are
falling short of spending man
dates, the CBO said in its report
to House SpeakerTip O’Neill (D-
Ma) last week.
The CBO reported Congress
brought on the shortfalls by
passing new and changing old
education laws in the years since
it passed its spending orders in
1980.
3 Out Of 4 Oppose Quotas