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...were amazed and delighted to see President Neil L. Rudenstine speak out last week on affirmative action. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently ruled in Hopwood v. Texas that the University of Texas could not consider the race or ethnicity of applicants in its admissions decisions; in response, Rudenstine issued a letter defending affirmative action and saying that "student diversity contributes powerfully and directly to the quality of education in colleges and universities...
...life, noting, "We can't be sure of anything that Jesus actually said." Experts on all sides of the question are crisscrossing the country, debating before schools and congregations whose growing taste for the topic has surprised them. "You could be out there every week," marvels a circuit-riding scholar. Notes another: "There's an enormous appetite among ordinary churchgoers," who, he adds, "are very puzzled about what's going...
Following the tournament, the squad had three scrimmages. They went 1-2 on the scrimmage circuit, falling to Occidental and Pomona and topping Claremont...
...United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in Hopwood v. Texas that despite the university's interest in promoting student diversity, it could not consider the race or ethnicity of applicants in its admissions decisions...
...circuit court ruled on the 1992 case of Hopwood v. State of Texas, in which Cheryl Hopwood and three other students disputed their rejection by the law school. One of the strengths of the case, says Terral Smith, the Austin lawyer who filed it, is that Hopwood is "a real victim, the sort of person affirmative action should help." According to Smith, Hopwood, who comes from a blue-collar family, was offered a couple of partial scholarships--including one to Princeton--but still could not afford to go. Instead she attended California State University, married a serviceman, worked...