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...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...
...while the letter comes one month after Harvard filed its friend-of-the-court brief supporting affirmative action admissions policies at the University of Michigan, Blum said that this case involved a very different issue—restricting admissions to certain races, not considering race as one of many factors in admissions...
...Supreme Court case has nothing to do with the kind of program Harvard is offering here,” Blum said. “[SVMP] is racially exclusive, whereas the University of Michigan’s admissions program is a racial preference question...