The Region - News from April 29, 1987

Fourteen law students were arrested at UCLA on trespassing charges and another for vandalism for breaking a window after they occupied offices in protest of proposed changes aimed at toughening the university’s law school admissions and graduation policies. The proposals, which the protesters say could reduce ethnic minorities’ chances of getting UCLA law degrees, are aimed at improving the university’s passage rate on the California Bar examination. Last year, 88% of UCLA law students who had been admitted under standard admissions criteria passed the test. But for those admitted under a set of less stringent guidelines designed to expand enrollment of minority and economically disadvantaged students, the passage rate was just 30%. On Friday, the law school faculty plans to consider a variety of proposals, ranging from doing nothing to fundamental overhauls of both the law school’s admissions procedures and grading practices.