University Of California

Maybe every few years a California governor just needs to forcefully remind the university president who really is in charge. Put this governance thing in perspective--and the president in his place, to use a working-class idiom. Re-educate scholars about the state Constitution. The state Constitution says nothing about "shared governance" among the University of California president, chancellors and faculty.

In their first public interplay since they cobbled together a tenuous truce, four University of California regents took to the airwaves Wednesday, engaging in an occasionally pointed exchange about their squabble with UC President Richard Atkinson on a radio talk show. Calling in to KCRW-FM (89.9) in Santa Monica, Lt. Gov.

After weeks of contentious debate that included a well-publicized clash between the University of California president and Gov. Pete Wilson, the UC Board of Regents on Thursday swiftly and quietly approved a new timetable for implementing a ban on race and gender preferences in admissions. At their monthly meeting in San Francisco, the regents by unanimous voice vote decided to eliminate preferences in undergraduate admissions beginning with students applying for entry to the spring 1998 term.

Gov. Pete Wilson, who has led the fight to roll back affirmative action, urged the University of California on Thursday to abolish any programs that give preference to VIP requests for student admissions. In a brief interview, Wilson said the prestigious Berkeley campus in particular should dismantle its special admissions system, saying "there should not be a VIP committee" to review requests from politicians, UC officials and donors.

Seeking to protect the integrity of the University of California admissions system, high-ranking officials said Monday that the nine-campus system should establish a clear and well-publicized process to equitably handle appeals from students who are rejected. UC Provost C.

A federal judge blocked the University of California on Friday from implementing Proposition 209, the November ballot measure that ended affirmative action in public education, employment and contracting. Chief U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson added the university to a temporary restraining order that he granted last week preventing Gov. Pete Wilson and Atty. Gen. Dan Lungren from enforcing the law, which was approved by 54% of the voters.

With a judge having suspending enforcement of Proposition 209, the University of California will use race, gender and ethnicity to evaluate the 70,000 high school and community college students who have applied for admission, UC President Richard C. Atkinson has confirmed.

Two days after a federal judge blocked the state from enforcing Proposition 209, the ACLU and a coalition of civil rights groups moved Friday to make sure that the University of California maintains its affirmative action programs. The temporary restraining order issued this week did not specifically mention UC, leaving the university in limbo at a time when admissions officers are getting ready to choose the fall 1997 freshman class.

Federal savings and loan regulators are investigating whether California State University Chancellor Barry Munitz "may have committed criminal violations" by giving false statements to investigators looking into the $1.6-billion failure of a Texas savings bank, court documents show. The federal Office of Thrift Supervision filed the papers in U.S.

The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to review a lower court ruling granting a UC Santa Barbara student and the ACLU the right to sue Gov. Pete Wilson and the University of California Board of Regents seeking to overturn their year-old ban on affirmative action.