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Germs of affirmative action multiply unabated
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Chicago Sun-Times
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March 1, 2001
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Advocates of affirmative action in higher education scored two
debilitating triumphs in December when courts upheld the legality of
racial preferences in admissions as administered at the University of
Washington and the University of Michigan. A few more such victories
and affirmative action will be completely incoherent.
Affirmative action originally concerned employment, not college
admissions. It was a remedial-and hence presumably temporary-measure
of restitution for injustice done to blacks by history. But both
December cases turned on a different rationale-"diversity," a benefit
for campus culture. That makes affirmative action in higher education
into a potentially permanent servant ...
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