The real problem is the "arms race" between universities, where football and basketball coaches are sometimes paid millions of dollars morethan presidents and outstanding faculty who may be doing cutting-edge research on cancer or in other fields vital to human welfare.
Seven states besides Michigan Arizona, California, Florida, Oklahoma, Nebraska, New Hampshire and Washingtonon — forbid the consideration of race in university admissions.
The race for university places has continued today, with more than 3,300 places now accepted through Clearing.
In 1996, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit barred the consideration of race in university admissions in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
In Grutter, the Court endorsed Powell's view that student body diversity is a compelling state interest that can justify using race in university admissions.
In the 1996 Hopwood ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit barred the use of race in university admissions in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Our policy follows the guidelines for the appropriate consideration of race in university admissions established by the Supreme Court in the Bakke case 24 years ago.
In the case involving the University of Michigan, the Supreme Court is expected to rule by the summer on the issue of using race in university admissions.
If the Supreme Court draws a line in the sand against the consideration of race in university admissions next month, it will likely burnish, not erase, the colour lines that still divide the American landscape.
As a result, the pair of decisions -- the court's first in a generation to address race in university admissions -- provided a blueprint for taking race into account without running afoul of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
