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Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott helped lead a successful battle to prevent his college fraternity from admitting blacks to any of its chapters, in a little-known incident now four decades old. At a time when racial issues were roiling campuses across the South, some chapters of Sigma Nu fraternity in the Northeast were considering admitting African-American members, a move that would have sent a powerful statement through the tradition-bound world of sororities and fraternities. At the time, Lott was president of the intra-fraternity council at the University of Mississippi. When the issue came to a head...
When the Supreme Court announced last Tuesday that it would review the University of Michigan’s affirmative action admissions policies, it rejoined the battle that has been brewing over racial preferences in higher education. At stake is the future of diversity in American universities. Following in the footsteps of University Presidents Derek C. Bok and Neil L. Rudenstine, Lawrence H. Summers should lead Harvard in a vigorous fight to preserve the use of race in admissions...
...Bakke, Harvard College submitted a friend-of-the-court brief describing its undergraduate admissions system of giving a “plus” to students from diverse backgrounds, including racial minorities. Justice Lewis F. Powell, expressing the judgment of the court, cited Harvard’s process as a legal way of promoting educational diversity because it did not “insulate the individual from comparison with all other candidates for the available seats.” Harvard’s admissions system, where every application is evaluated individually, is the ideal toward which other colleges should strive...
...course, not all preferential systems should be embraced. Bakke rightly outlawed racial quotas, which infringe individual rights by excluding white students from consideration for seats set aside for minorities. As such, the University of Michigan law school’s admissions policy—which seeks to enroll a critical mass of minority students—should be struck down. As plaintiff Barbara Grutter argued in her final brief to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, critical mass “is a concept based on numbers.” The fact that critical mass is a vague range...
...wrote in Bakke, and so universities ought to be able to weigh race in their admissions decisions. But true diversity cannot be achieved by considering race alone. “The diversity that furthers a compelling state interest encompasses a far broader array of qualifications and characteristics, of which racial or ethnic origin is but a single, though important, element,” Powell wrote. To attain a meaningful sense of diversity, universities must ensure that they take socioeconomic, geographic and personal factors into account, in addition to race and ethnicity...