Nader said the two candidates are too similar in their stances and are not concerned with helping poor working Americans. Supports affirmative action without quotas. Gore also wants to make the programs more fair and carefully targeted to meet legal requirements. Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore skirmished briefly over their views on affirmative action. During the debate held Tuesday at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., an audience member asked Bush to describe the role that affirmative action would play in his administration if made president.
Quotas are bad for America.
It's not the way America is all about. To illustrate his point, Bush described the Texas 10 Percent Plan, which grants automatic admission to the top 10 percent of graduates of every high school in the state to any public university in Texas. After several fights broke out in a student-organized dance at the Texas Union last week, about 60 students Wednesday sought ways to improve the event to ensure a safe environment in the future. According to a UTPD report, the fights started early Saturday morning during Soul Night, a monthly dance sponsored by the Texas Union African-American Culture Committee and open to all college students. The fights started in the Union Showroom, but later spread to 24th and Guadalupe streets.