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...Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson, who spoke for 10 minutes in each case on behalf of the U.S. Government, repeatedly referred to Michigan’s law school and undergraduate policies as “a thinly disguised quota...
...Setting aside a fixed number of ‘slots’ for which racial minorities are eligible would be a forbidden racial quota,” Summers and Tribe wrote in the op-ed. “But that epithet does not fairly describe Michigan’s policies...
...administration attacks the Michigan program for being a quota. I think the technical term for that is a lie,” he said...
...words are more likely to get the Bush Administration's attention than "quota." So last June, U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige appointed a 15-member Commission on Opportunity in Athletics to consider changes to Title IX. The move dismayed the law's defenders, who believe that the White House is intent on rolling back years of gains. During his campaign for President, Bush said he was against "strict proportionality" in Title IX. And last year he appointed affirmative-action opponent Gerald Reynolds to head the Office of Civil Rights, the department charged with overseeing the law's enforcement. The commission...
...factor” doctrine—which pursues the goal of a racially diverse student body by weighing race as one factor among many in choosing qualified candidates—was endorsed by the Supreme Court as an example of an acceptable, and even laudable, form of affirmative action. Quota systems, on the other hand, were rightly disallowed in the Bakke decision...