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...Plan," which was first applied to this year's pool of applicants. Any Texas high school student who graduates in the top 10% of his or her class is guaranteed a slot at any of the state's public universities, including the highly selective University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M. At many of the state's public high schools, most of the students are black or Latino, so sponsors of the plan expected the new law to boost minority enrollments to new highs. Among educators around the country who thought affirmative action might be threatened on their...
...Texas, the numbers were no more encouraging. The 296 African-American students admitted this year at UT Austin represent only 2.9% of all admissions, in contrast to 4.3% (416) the year before the law changed. At Texas A&M admissions of black students fell 3%, and those of Hispanic students went down 7%. "We expected a significant increase in minority numbers, and that did not happen," concedes Al Kauffman, a senior lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, who helped draft the law. A notable exception: at UT Austin the chief beneficiaries of the new law seem...
Fallon, who is also the chair of the committee on special lectures, introduced Halley to the crowd of about 100 people assembled in Austin Hall...
...clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and practiced at the firm of Sidley & Austin in Washington, D.C., before joining the Law School faculty...
...what was Boston's highest grossing sports event ever, challenger Stone Cold Steve Austin stole the WWF belt from last year's champ, Shawn Michaels...