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...Northern Ireland and Israel, America is no longer suffering from widespread violence because of the progress that has been made in equalizing and integrating education over the last 50 years. If that trend is to continue, then programs like Metco must be expanded, not stifled. As Justice William J. Brennan wrote of another recalcitrant school district 14 years after Brown, “the transition to a unitary, nonracial system of public education was and is the ultimate end to be brought about...
...Brennan wrote in his concurrence that Harvard’s method was more appealing to the public because it “proceeds in a manner that is not immediately apparent to the public.” Harvard’s privacy, as well as its status as a private university may therefore protect its affirmative action program even if—and, as it seems increasingly likely, when—the Supreme Court rules Michigan’s program is unconstitutional. (The court has often ruled private institutions exempt from scrutiny on this issue...
However, if the goals of Harvard and Michigan are substantively the same—to create a diverse student body for diversity’s sake—as Justice Brennan argued in his concurrence to Bakke, they should be treated equally. Just because Harvard is able to conceal its methods from the public by using more sophisticated tools than a 150-point scale does not mean it should duck and cover during the anti-affirmative action backlash...
...Michigan’s admissions process was the same as Harvard’s, his was at most a white lie. Truth be told, Harvard’s method is only a more sophisticated, less numerical version of Michigan’s. They may appear different, but to paraphrase Brennan, just because one system adds points to admit disadvantaged minority applicants and the other adds a non-numerical preference, does not make one constitutional and the other...
...major convincing point is how everyone pays the exact same cost for living and some people are getting the Days Inn and some people are getting the Hilton,” Brennan said. “It’s a rip-off for my parents...