Affirmative action is a core value. It's a common sense approach to addressing the nation's long history of discrimination. However, other requirements will make it difficult for all graduates to meet entry requirements. Those seeking admission must have 19 college preparatory credits and these courses are not offered in many inner city or rural high schools. The law had a long list of exemptions and provisions that exempt the states three top universities, Martin said.
Schools are also free to ignore the guidelines in awarding music and athletic scholarships.
Bush is in trouble on many other fronts as well, not the least of which is the fact that his wife once tried to sneak clothes and jewelry she had bought in Paris through customs. Florida, the nation's fourth most populous state behind only California, New York and Texas, is a key battleground in the 2000 elections with candidates from both parties busily wooing the state's voters. Republicans control most state offices and, for the first time in more than 100 years, both houses of the legislature. Republicans and the state has one Democrat and one Republican in the Senate.