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The University of Texas will draft new affirmative action admissions policies that include race as a factor as allowed by Monday's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, school President Larry Faulkner said Monday.

Can anyone imagine a clearer indictment of yesterday's decisions than this one?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Institutional racism cast in stone.

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I can't think of any.

Though the ruling DOES NOT stand Hopwood on its head, schools and other government institutions all over the country will now see this as their opportunity to reinstate the entire thing.

Despite protestations to the contrary, it is nearly impossible to tell if race was a sole or primary factor vs. just another factor. As long as the race is listed, we know what the choices will be. And the entire "critical mass" argument is just another word for ad hoc quotas in a given year. The SCOTUS basically gave carte blanche to use race as a factor in admissions. It may be more narrow than the old quotas, but it is now less-scientific, less quantifiable and therefore WORSE than the old system.

What PO's me off is that private schools can do what they want. If diversity is so all-fired important why don't private schools take on the students that would be barred from entry into state schools?