Affirmative Action Curbed in California Essay - 980 Words

LOS ANGELES, JUNE 1 – California Gov. Pete Wilson (R), vowing to lead a growing conservative movement to end three decades of racial and gender preferences as an antidote to discrimination, today signed an executive order abolishing a wide range of affirmative action programs affecting hiring and contracting in state agencies. Wilson, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, eliminated or sharply cut back scores of affirmative action policies or programs that are not mandated by state or federal laws or that exceed those laws. He also abolished 118 boards and commissions created to advise state agencies on ethnic and gender diversity issues. Although he has no direct authority to order policy changes for public†¦show more content†¦By itself, it doesnt complete the change we must make. Special preferences remain embedded in state and federal law. I vow to fight for changes in those laws,quot; Wilson said. Sean Walsh, the governors press secretary, said Wilson is the first governor to roll back affirmative action programs. He said the order would affect all of the states approximately 150,000 full-time job positions. According to the California State Employees Association, about 60 percent of the state government work force is white, 16 percent Hispanic, 12 percent black, 6 percent are Asian and the remaining 6 percent from other groups. Wilsons action appeared designed to capitalize on public dissatisfaction with minority preference programs and on a backlash against what is characterized as quot;reverse discrimination,quot; while at the same time setting him apart from the eight other contenders for the GOP presidential nomination, none of whom are sitting governors. It comes a day after senior White House officials said President Clinton is still weeks or even months away from completing a review he has ordered of federal affirmative action programs. Wilson already had announced his support of a proposed 1996 state ballot initiative that would go further than todays order by abolishing affirmative action in all state hiring, contracting and university admissions practices. At least six other states –Show MoreRelatedEssay about History: World War I and Bold Experiments7600 Words   |  31 Pageswho became part of the war effort Broward Practice Questions F 127 13. The battle in the Senate over the Treaty of Versailles centered around Article x, which was (a) a section of the league of Nations’ covenant that called for military action (b) a plan for reparation payments (c) a proposal for the creation of new nations in Europe and the Middle East (d) an international army (e) a new map of Europe 14. A major impact of advertising and mass media in the 1920s and later was the (a) standardizationRead MoreStrategy Safari by Mintzberg71628 Words   |  287 Pagesdifferent schools about it) requires a number of definitions, five in particular (based on Mintzberg, 1987). Ask someone to define strategy and you will likely be told that strategy is a plan, or something equivalent—a direction, a guide or course of action into the future, a path to get from here to there. Then ask that person to describe the strategy that his or her own organization or that of a competitor actually pursued over the past five years—not what they inte nded to do but what they really did