Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday Regents debate affirmative action SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The probable death of affirmative action could rise from the same American passion for fairness that created the program a University of California regent says Affirmative action has evolved from a necessary tool for equal opportunity to a system of racial preferences Ward Connerly who helped end affirmative action in California colleges and universities said Tuesday at a University of Utah conference director of the cenBut Evelyn ter for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America at the University of Colorado at Boulder disagreed “Those who argue that affirmative action is no longer necessary are in denial" she said citing white males who have had a 300-yehead start on opportunities for suc cess While Utah Higher Education officials have been watching California's affirmative action debate they have no plans to uproot Utah's programs said Cecelia Foxley Utah Commissioner of Higher Education Foxley surmised that abuses of affirmative action in California prompted its rejection of the programs “We’re in a different setting" she said “They were doing things in California that we have never even contemplated here” a founder of the Asian-Pacifi- c Women's Leadership Institute blames election-year politics and white male anxiety for the attack on affirmative action She said the program was developed in response to a “white supremacist social structure" that caters to white males Hu-DeH- Hu-DeH- ar who is black said the But Connerly Davis County minors buy beer easier than smokes April 4 1996 — Page 13 Company bilks young ball teams customers pro- gram — developed in the 1960s — has strayed from its purpose He says he has seen children of wealthy parents being given special admissions consideration because of racial preferences “I do not make the presumption that race is a disadvantage” Connerly said “The evidence is overwhelming that affirmative action has become a 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