erally set goals and timetables for increased diversity and use recruitment, set-asides, and preference as methods of achieving those goals. Although affirmative action has been active for a short period of time, it has proven to be quite successful, with a tremendous increase of minorities and women in jobs that were once closed off to them, such as in law enforcement, government, and the media.
             However, over the past few years, affirmative action, has been under attack by those who claim that it is nothing more than "reverse discrimination" where one is accepted into a university or chosen for a job not because of merit or capability, but because of their membership in an ethnic group. Anti-affirmative action legislation has further fanned the flare of controversy as new measures such as Proposition 209 have banned the practice of affirmative action in several states such as Texas, Florida, and California. However, many of
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