[Net-Gold] A Leg Up for Minorities on Campus

[David P. Dillard]

Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:23:43 EDT
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A Leg Up for Minorities on Campus

from the May 11, 2007 edition -
Christian Science Monitor

<http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0511/
p08s01-comv.html>

More states and the courts, too, may ban racial
preferences. What's a state university to do for
diversity?

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The political wind is at his back after a 58 percent
win for Michigan's 2007 initiative, which especially
riled the University of Michigan. In 2003, it won a
high court nod for its use of race as one of many
factors in law-school admissions (although the court
banned a numerical advantage for underrepresented
minorities in undergrad enrollment).

Mr. Connerly contends that affirmative action has run
its course, violates US civic principles, and hurts
minorities elevated beyond their merit. On that last
point, at least one study, focusing on law graduates,
backs him up. And former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor,
writing for the court in the 2003 decision, stated,
"Twenty-five years from now, the use of racial
preferences will no longer be necessary."

No wonder public universities are seeking political
allies. And admission officials are enlisting lawyers
to avoid lawsuits as they devise race-blind ways to
enroll more blacks and Hispanics who don't meet minimum
grades or test scores. The military academies, too,
reportedly face a Pentagon directive to end favoring
minority and female applicants for their affiliated
"preparatory schools." And in coming weeks, two more
decisions on racial preferences are expected from a
more conservative Supreme Court.

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