To attract "other race" students, the euphemism used here to mean white students, the school opened the Greenwood center in 1996.
What the Bakke decision basically said to universities was: Stop talking about redressing the effects of past discrimination and start talking about the educational benefits of mixed-race student bodies, and you'll be on the safe side of the law.
DISGRACE In the Australian filmmaker Steve Jacobs's faithful screen adaptation of J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning 1999 novel, John Malkovich plays its protagonist, David Lurie, an arrogant South African professor of romantic poetry who is fired from his job at a Cape Town university after sleeping with an attractive mixed-race student.
It's no wonder that a reality-TV producer (Malcolm Barrett) keeps hanging around on the sidelines, trying to create an incendiary series about life among the mixed-race student body of Winchester.
Without clear guidance from the colleges, mixed-race students often turn to one another for advice, and their conversations spotlight how contentious the multiracial factor is in admissions.
The University of Phoenix, a pioneer in accelerated and compressed online degrees for midcareer adults, has been widely criticized for racing students through and for its low graduation rates.
At the height of apartheid, it admitted few black or mixed-race students, and they were barred from campus dormitories, even forbidden to attend medical school postmortems on white corpses.
In a closely watched decision in April, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the racial quotas enacted in 2004 by the University of Brasília, which reserved 20 percent of its spots for black and mixed-race students.
Mixed-race students who travel a lot while growing up can lack a cultural identity and also have to struggle with the fact that they don't have a history – or not one that's easily explained.
The university used every trick it could to avoid implementation of racist laws, so to the extent that it "admitted few black or mixed-race students" and maintained whites-only dormitories, it acted through gritted teeth, not from racism, as the article implies.
