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Last year, after taking up the Fisher case again, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld universities' right to use race as one factor among many in their admissions processes.

By Jelani Cobb August 4, 2017 In a recent suit brought by Abigail Fisher, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld universities' right to use race as a factor in admissions.

Meissner's successor, Rudolf Steinberg, upheld the university's decision to retain the name, but he did not enforce a uniform nomenclature within the university's administration.

True, the 7-to-1 opinion vacated the lower court's ruling that had upheld the university's limited consideration of race as part of its admission plan.

In 2003, for example, the court upheld a university's racial preferences in admissions while guessing that they would not be needed in 25 years.

Last December, a federal judge upheld the university's admissions policy, which awards 20 extra points -- on a 150-point scale -- to black, Latino and Native American applicants.

At the same time, the court sent the case at hand — Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin — back for review by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which had upheld the university's use of race in its admissions policy.

St. John's guard Erick Barkley will play against Villanova tomorrow after a National Collegiate Athletic Association subcommittee yesterday upheld the university's appeal and sliced one game off what was supposed to be a three-game suspension.

In addition, the Supreme Court ruling last June in a University of Michigan case -- which upheld a university's right to consider race in admissions but outlawed quotas -- has admissions officials scrambling for ways to identify promising minority students.

Though the judge, Patrick J. Duggan of Federal District Court in Detroit, said that policy had violated the Constitution, he upheld the university's current policy, in which black and Hispanic applicants are given a 20-point boost on a 150-point scale.

She said she felt that she was being punished for trying to uphold the university's standards while Broadus was being financially rewarded.