Word: hopwood
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Well, this summer in Austin, academia's dirty little secret went public. In Hopwood V. Texas, the University of Texas Law School was sued by four white applicants who claimed that they were denied admission because of their race...
...Texas an isolated instance of affirmative action gone awry? Most likely not. A lawyer for the university told The New York Times that the "Texas approach to affirmative action is in the mainstream." And law school deans from Stanford. Michigan, Minnesota and North Carolina testified at the Hopwood trial that they use similar schemes to admit minority students...
Hopefully while the Hopwood case is being appealed, university officials everywhere will consider the insight offered by Texas law professor Lino A Graglia in lost week's Wall Street Journal: "racial preferences may have been the cause rather than the cure for racial hostility...