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...page decision released last Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman said that the U-M law school should abandon its current admissions policy, which aims toward achieving a "critical mass" of minority students, and instead strive for "race-neutral" admissions...
...think Judge Friedman's decision is wrong on the law and wrong on the facts," University of Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger, who was recently on the short list for the Harvard presidency, told the Crimson in an interview in Ann Arbor last week...
...Those who agreed publicly Wednesday with Friedman's decision were eager to applaud what they called academia's reaching "a point where race is no longer an issue." Friedman's detractors painted a less rosy picture; some predicted his opinion would return American campuses to lily-white canvases of homogeneity...
...Friedman's opinion was straightforward: "All racial distinctions are inherently suspect and presumptively invalid." Equally straightforward were the retorts from University of Michigan officials. In a statement released Tuesday, university president Lee Bollinger declared, "Today's decision conflicts with settled Supreme Court law and the policies of virtually every selective university in the country for nearly 30 years. We will appeal this decision." The administration fervently defends the university's affirmative action policies, declaring that "racial diversity is critical to a high-quality education," and pointing out that many traditional factors (i.e., standardized tests, on which non-Asian minorities tend...
...Last December, a federal judge rejected a challenge to the University of Michigan's undergraduate admissions policy, ruling that race could be a determining factor in admissions. But Tuesday, U.S. District Court judge Bernard Friedman made the opposite ruling regarding the similarly race-conscious admissions standards of the unversity law school, declaring its admission system "unconstitutional...