[July 4th]

I know how this feels. I waited until June to hear (negatively) from Michigan Law's admissions department last year, as my app was in the group that hadn't been decided yet when the stay was issued.

Keep in mind, diversity DOES NOT STOP at admissions. Next week, when I complete my essay that enters me into the write-on competition for our school's law review, there is a form to include - should you so choose - for you to state your race and any other hardship that may make you more disadvantaged than other applicants. The same holds true for all of the law journals.

When does it end? The way the system works right now, it's pure punishment if your parents simply have jobs and are above the poverty line. Your application is viewed with suspicion, as you're "privileged." Until every middle-class white guy is weeded out of the process, the witch-hunt will never end.

[Rays_Dad]

"Our constitution recognizes that students learn better in a racially integrated environment."

I didn't know our constitution was a living organism with the ability to live, feel, think and interpret thoughts and feelings. Wow - I am a better person now that I know this. Now everytime I see that the constitution has made a decision which I disagree with, I will understand that the constitution made the decision on its own.

Chip

[Lancey Howard]

"Our constitution recognizes that students learn better in a racially integrated environment."

This statement was not made by Sheila Jackson Lee.
It was not made by a seventh grade Debating Club student.
It was not made by a runner-up Junior Miss beauty pageant contestant.

The statement was made by Jeff Lehman, the law school dean at the University of Michigan.

This nation is gone.

[rebelsoldier]

Academia is irretrievably and hopelessly corrupt and compromised beyond redemption. It only needs to fall, not attempt to be repaired. If that means force and violence, then so, be it since that is exactly how the malignant and hateful left insinuated itself into academia in the first place. Political correctness isn't like a cold, it's like terminal cancer and like such must be destroyed at any and every opportunity. When the enemy respects and fears no deserved criticism or meticulous critical introspection, the all that is left is brute force.

[brat]

"Our constitution recognizes that students learn better in a racially integrated environment."

What are they smoking???

[rmlew]

Pray for us.
Lee Bollinger is the new President of Columbia University. At a private university he can do almost anything he wants.

[sheik yerbouty]

It seems that diversity has enabled perversity.

[wildehunt]

Did someone, somewhere, once say something about judging people
by content of character rather then color of skin??
Oh... what ..was his..name???
It plumb evades me now...

[yendu bwam]

In a stinging dissent, Circuit Judge Danny Boggs called Michigan's policy "a straightforward instance of racial discrimination by a state institution."

The biggest racists are those who scream 'racism' loudest.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[Fredgoblu]

I saw the same quote in the Detroit Free Press article on Wednesday, but I assumed that Lehman was referring to the constitution of the university or of the law school.

For the full article in the Free Press, here's a link:

U-M law school can use race -- for now

I was most interested in a comment printed in the sidebar of the Free Press article, though: "LAW SCHOOL: Admissions counselors evaluate each applicant on various criteria, including transcripts, resume, test scores, personal statements,race and recommendations. The goal is to admit the best applicants and achieve a sufficient number of minority students so that they are not isolated or viewed as tokens."

In other words, they've got a quota system. They're not interested in the quality of the applicant. They're only interested in admitting a certain number of minority, so that the normally qualified minority don't feel excluded. That's a quota system, pure and simple.