The art and science of college admissions - Speaking Of Education

Black Issues in Higher Education, Feb 13, 2003 by Julianne Malveaux

I don't know the University of Michigan plaintiffs, but I find their sense of fairness overly individual and oddly defined. The University of Michigan is committed to inclusion. To turn admissions officers into automatons, to inhibit their ability to compose a class taking a range of factors into consideration, seems far more divisive than affirmative action guidelines.

Furthermore, to acknowledge diversity for every category but race seems an amusing and pernicious form of racism. The Supreme Court would do well to remember Bakke and find the University of Michigan plan constitutional. And the whiners whose knowledge of history is so limited might be advised that their behavior clearly illustrates that knowledge and life skills are obviously not measured by SAT scores.