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...Michigan, it's Ward Connerly and Jennifer Gratz versus the state's entire political establishment - and Gratz and Connerly may actually win. Connerly, an African-American businessman famous for being the force behind affirmative action bans that passed in California and Washington in the late 1990s, is now pushing his favorite cause in Michigan. A group he helped found called the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative is backing an initiative on the state's ballot in November that would ban both racial and gender preferences in state government hiring and college admissions. Gratz, who after being denied admission to the University...
...announcement comes a week after HMS sent out admissions decisions to its incoming Class of 2010, and almost three years after the Supreme Court struck down the University of Michigan’s point-based undergraduate admissions policy in the cases of Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger...
Poussaint cited the language of the Gratz v. Bollinger decision, which called for “holistic” affirmative action policies, saying that administrators “thought it would look more holistic if minority groups were spread over all the subcommittees...
...stories, and Frank is full of them, are so ludicrous that you periodically question them. In the end, they are real because Philadelphia makes them possible. The City of Brotherly Love has produced NBA notables like two-time All-Star Rasheed Wallace (Simon Gratz High School) and Kobe Bryant (Lower Marion...
Still, the question of affirmative action won’t be over this fall when Michigan debuts its new undergraduate admissions policy in line with Gratz. With an eye toward the future, O’Connor’s majority in Grutter articulated a tentative sunset clause for affirmative action...