Unlike remedial programs, which by their nature seek to remedy past wrongs and move beyond race-based preference, respondents' pursuit of a critical mass of selected minority students would justify such a policy in perpetuity.
He took a more oblique approach that attacked the law school program not so much for its premise as for how it works in practice, dismissing it as "a carefully managed program designed to ensure proportionate representation of applicants from selected minority groups".
The law school has offered no explanation for its actual admissions practices and, unexplained, we are bound to conclude that the law school has managed its admissions program, not to achieve a "critical mass," but to extend offers of admission to members of selected minority groups in proportion to their statistical representation in the applicant pool.
Above all, they have been careful to select minority candidates.Ms Brown, the latest martyr on the filibuster rack, is a sharecropper's daughter who grew up in the segregated south, worked her way through law school in California, and is now on the California Supreme Court.
"In many cases, it means that the homosexual feels that he is almost a selected minority specially chosen and persecuted, and he sees within the wider community, for good or evil, more permissive attitudes".
Posse focuses on leadership--above academics--when selecting predominantly minority students from low-income families.11 The program's 6-year graduation rate is over 90%, even though Posse students would likely not be admitted to these colleges without the program.
By selecting both minority and general population patients from the same family physicians' practices, our study eliminated interphysician differences between groups (3), which may have driven some of the inequity found in previous studies.
Education cannot be overhauled in this typically top-down manner, with a select minority of institutions running the show at the expense of the sector as a whole.
But for a select minority, being drenched, frozen, starved and bumped is the point of the whole thing.Such adventure holidays come in lots of different shapes and sizes.
In 1955 the industrial colour bar was breached, and a select minority of African workers were encouraged to live out their working lives in the mining areas: "stabilized" labour began to replace oscillating migrant labour.
He is, quite frankly, in a select minority.
