Final Mock Trial

The University of California has instituted a quota system that reserves a certain number of seats of african american students each year. Mr. Bakke challenges that under the 14th amendment equal protection clause, and says that the certain amount of seats violates his rights and he should be able to attend. Bakke is a white man that is suing the school for not being allowed into the University. President Lyndon B Johnson came up with affirmative action during this time for minorities because what was being done wasn't enough. All this University wants to do is give black people the opportunity to to go school. Blacks have been treated as a minority for centuries. After a white man is denied a place in the school he thinks it is unfair because blacks get his spot. This blows up in social media because he is a white man and the people holding him back is a black men. This case is not about race but of age. Backy is 3 years older than one is allowed to be in that University. He is 36 and you can only be up to 33 in that college. What he is arguing is not relevant at all and should not have gone to trial. He got denied for good reasons: because he is 3 years too old, and because african americans already have filled enough spots.

Bakke scored in some of the highest percentiles in the school with none below the 94th percentile. He went into the military after he earned a national merit at the high school he attended. When he went to the marines he became captain and was known as extremely respectable. He served 7 months in Vietnam. He then went to work as an engineer for nasa before deciding he wanted to go to the University. He had previously graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota, so he has experience in college. It is not fair for Bakke to be denied to the University just for a black man to be able to go. The school he wanted to attend is a medical school, so they should want the best of the best to go there and make it prestige.