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Some Regents Seek UCLA Admissions Priorities for Friends

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Los Angeles Times, March 16, 1996, pp. A-1, A-18 Some Regents Seek UCLA Admissions Priorities for Friends By Ralph Frammolino, Mark Gladstone, and Amy Wallace, Times Staff Writers

Several University of California regents who voted publicly to roll back affirmative action admissions for minorities and women have privately used their influence to try to get their relatives, friends and children of business partners into UCLA, in some cases ahead of better qualified applicants who were turned away, a months-long Times investigation shows.

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"I voted that way [against affirmative action] because I believe in equal rights," Regent Leo S. Kolligian, a Fresno attorney, said earlier this week about his vote to repeal affirmative action in admissions. "To me, when you give preferential treatment, you're not exercising equal rights ... That's the way I understand the Constitution to be." Yet four months before his vote, confidential records show, Kolligian leaned heavily on UCLA officials to admit the daughter of a Fresno-area builder who had been rejected with a 3.45 grade point average, a 790 SAT score and no high school honors classes -- by the school's standard, an anemic academic record.

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