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Focuses on the proposed admissions process at the University of California, to replace its two-tier selection procedure. Details of the proposed admission process for all applicants; Amount allocated for the proposed comprehensive-admissions policy; Possible motives for coming up with the proposed admissions process.

Reports on the plan of the University of California Board of Regents to overturn a policy enacted in 1995 that bars the use of affirmative action in university admissions. Admission of minority students at the university in 2000; Amount allotted by the university for its outreach program; Argument against the overturning of the policy.

Reports on a proposal by the University of California in Berkeley to extend offers of admission to students in top 12.5 percent of every high-school graduating class. Aim of the move; Provisions of the admission proposal; Significance of the plan's focus on minority students.

Reports that students rallied to support affirmative-action programs at various universities in 1998. Low turnout for the event titled `National Days of Action to Defend Affirmative Action'; Largest rally held at the University of California at Berkeley; Comments from Bob Jensen, professor at the University of Texas at Austin.