Supreme Court Decision -- The majority opinion of the Court, authored by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, held that the school's use of race as a partial criteria in addressing a social policy for the school was valid, and the Constitution does not legally prohibit a narrowly tailored use of race in the decision making process of admission. This reaffirmed that public universities and other public institutions can use race as a plus factor in admissions -- it may not be the only factor, but it may be a contributing factor. Dissent in the case was written by Justice Clarence Thomas, who found that the process of using race as a positive for admission was just as illegal as using it for a negative. If, they concluded, higher institutions had to resort to using race as a factor for admission in order to create "balance," then the institution's admissions policies were flawed (Grutter v. Bollinger).
Implications- The Grutter case questions merit in admission and congronts both testing bias on the GRE, MCAT, and LSAT tests based on access to appropriate levels of preparation in...
Affirmative Action The American Civil War ended an African holocaust that had lasted almost three centuries, devastating generations of human beings. It took most of the next century for decedents of the Africans enslaved in the American States to enjoy any of the actual freedoms and rights that were supposed to have been guaranteed to them after 1865. In many respects, contemporary American culture still features residual consequences of Slavery in
Introduction This paper aims to appraise the document submitted to the United States Supreme Court by the American Sociological Association (ASA) on a Michigan Law School case. This paper presents a summary of the argument maintained by the ASA. This paper further presents an argument on race's relevance by college admissions officers in deciding whom to accept into a college. Ethnic and racial diversity in the student body is considered a valuable
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