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Blacks and 3 Chicanos; the regular program admitted no Blacks and no Chicanos. In 1971, the special program admitted 15 ^minority students; the regular program admitted 9. In its third year, the special program admitted 16 ^minority students; the regular program admitted 11. In it fourth year, the special program admitted 16 ^minority students; the regular program, admitted 15; in the fifth year of the program, 15 ^minority students were admitted, while the regular program admitted only 9.)

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Eight of the white students admitted as part of the regular admissions program had benchmark scores lower than Alan Bakke's; 36 whites admitted that same year had lower undergraduate scores. 15 whites with higher scores than Bakke's, and 20 whites with equal benchmark scores were refused.

Alan Bakke charges that this process is reverse discrimination, that he is the victim of an illegal quota system, and that he was discriminated against because of his race.

Reverse discrimination would exist if minorites were [illegible] ^to brutalize, dehumanize, degrade and enslave white people, were to cause white people to take the worst jobs, to live in the least9 attractive sections of town, and to send their children to the worst schools, and to face death at an earlier age than Black people do. What Mr. Bakke calls reverse discrimination is compensatory treatment, surely not a new concept in either American education or American law.

Veterans in Georgia are given preferential treatment when they seek employment with the state. Georgia residents are given preferential treatment when they apply to our own state's medical school, even though non-residents may have better paper qualifications. In undergraduate education, such qualifications as atheletic ability are used to favor some and deny others.

Additionally, the system used at Davis did not constitute a quota, or according to the New Heritage Dictionary. "the maximum number or proportion of persons who may be admitted, as to a nation, group or institution." In the years cited by Bakke, 1970
through 1974, only twice did the special admissions program reach its goal10 of filling the 16 seats it had set aside. If the special progeam