Word: blum
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...Clearly, there wasn't much for affirmative action opponents to cheer about. "A disaster," said Edward Blum, a senior fellow at the Center for Equal Opportunity, which had a filed a brief in the case opposing affirmative action...
...affirmative action opponents, Blum said he and other groups would continue to oppose race in admissions, but focus their attention on summer programs and scholarships that are given only to minorities. Other groups, too, may continue to file suits against college affirmative actions programs. Because the decision doesn't completely outlaw affirmative action or permit it in all cases, students are likely to file suit against other colleges, arguing that their affirmative action programs favors race too much and doesn't focus enough on the individual applicant as the Court calls on universities...
...Edward Blum, director of Legal Affairs at the Civil Rights Institute, said that the organizations will file a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights if SVMP admissions policies do not change for next year...
...Regardless of the ruling in the Michigan cases, I believe Harvard will eventually be sued over this program unless it is changed,” Blum said. “I think they very well intend to change it. What they have done is buy themselves another year to offer a program that’s both illegal and immoral...
...Blum said that his office and the Center for Equal Opportunity sent similar letters to more than 30 universities, and 60 percent have changed the admissions policies of such programs. Their efforts led MIT to open one of its summer programs—Minority Introduction to Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Science—to non-minorities for the first time...