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To: reed_inthe_wind
Has anyone measured what students learn from each other? Is the transmission of knowledge from student to student maximized when the ability of some of the students is reduced by a racial selection process?

FYI, Justice Scalia nailed this point in his dissenting opinion in Grutter. Check it out:

"...This is not,of course,an “educational benefit ” on which students will be graded on their Law School transcript (Works and Plays Well with Others:B+) or tested by the bar examiners (Q:Describe in 500 words or less your cross-racial understanding). For it is a lesson of life rather than law—essentially the same lesson taught to (or rather learned by, for it cannot be “taught ” in the usual sense)) people three feet shorter and twenty years younger than the full-grown adults at the University of Michigan Law School,in institutions ranging from Boy Scout troops to public-school kindergartens. If properly considered an “educational benefit ”at all, it is surely not one that is either uniquely relevant to law school or uniquely “teachable ” in a formal educational setting..."

98 posted on 06/23/2003 8:36:59 PM PDT by Fredgoblu
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To: Fredgoblu
Scalia is so smart it is humbling.
99 posted on 06/23/2003 8:39:07 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: Fredgoblu
You have to understand that silly women like O'Connor just.... "feel".... that racial diversity at law school is important enough to suspend the Constitution for. She is senile.
102 posted on 06/23/2003 8:51:27 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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