Word: hopwood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rare use of the bully pulpit, Rudenstine heads a nationwide coalition of 62 university presidents calling for maintaining diversity in higher education, following the Supreme Court's Hopwood decision restricting the use of race as a factor in admission...
...study seems to be part of a growing counter-attack to anti-affirmative action measures like California's Proposition 209 and the Supreme Court's Hopwood decision...
...lies appear most clearly at the University of Texas and in the lawsuit it lost, Hopwood v. Texas. Lawsuits inconvenience dissemblers because they force dissemblers to testify and release documents under oath. The evidence revealed in the Hopwood case reveals how affirmative action really works, which Texas law professor Lino A. Graglia knows all too well...
...face of the Hopwood evidence (or King's article), intellectuals no longer defend affirmative action and persecute the likes of Graglia by contending that affirmative action is merely a "plus factor." Instead, they claim that affirmative action is necessary to achieve diversity. That argument, they think, arrests any opposition. Who, after all, will deny the value of diversity...
...California last year with Proposition 209, but that victory has turned out to be difficult to repeat in other states. The federal judiciary, however, is proving far more receptive. Two years ago, the Supreme Court showed a distinct willingness to strike down minority-business set-aside programs. And in Hopwood v. Texas, a challenge to affirmative action at the University of Texas Law School, a federal appeals court held that race cannot be used as a factor in admissions...