Thumbs down: affirmative action. (Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down affirmative action program used by the University of Texas)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, March, 1996
HOUSTON
IS AFFIRMATIVE action on the way out in America's universities? Last year, the University of California's Board of Regents voted to end the controversial practice in their vast system. Now a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, has declared unconstitutional the University of Texas Law School's elaborate system, which has already been revised several times since the early 1990s. The judges even rejected the use of affirmative action for "the wholesome practice" of correcting racial imbalance in the student body.
The case involves four white students--three men, one woman--who were denied admission to the highly selective law school in 1992, even though a number of black students with...
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