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...three attended the University of Texas as undergraduates, and said they witnessed the impact of the 1996 ruling in the Hopwood v. Texas case, which struck down the use of affirmative action in Texas universities...
Neil L. Rudenstine, Bok’s successor as president, publicly criticized the 1996 ruling of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Hopwood v. Texas, which forbade the University of Texas from using race as a factor in law school admissions...
Former University President Neil L. Rudenstine publicly criticized the1996 ruling of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Hopwood v. Texas, which forbid the University of Texas from using race as a factor in law school admissions, with a statement to the University community...
...response to the 1996 ruling of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Hopwood v. Texas, which forbid the University of Texas from using race as a factor in law school admissions, Rudenstine issued a statement to the University community...
These programs and policies are generating a new debate. To supporters of affirmative action, they are the ideal response to rulings such as the UGA and Hopwood decisions, and work to keep higher education inclusive while staying within the letter of the law. But opponents of affirmative action are crying foul. It's hard for anyone to object to some of the milder efforts--like letters of encouragement to minority applicants. But Ward Connerly, the California regent who wrote Proposition 209, argues that many of the ideas being proposed in California, like reducing the academic track, are "designed...