Affirmative Action Suit Challenges UT Admission Policy
If two young women have their way, the University of Texas may soon rival the University of Michigan as the nation's top breeding ground for affirmative action jurisprudence.
Abigail Fisher and her co-plaintiff, Rachel Michalewicz, are the faces of a movement to overturn a landmark 2003 U.S. Supreme Court opinion allowing the use of race in the admissions process at the Michigan Law School. Their chosen target is UT, which denied them both admission in 2008. They believe that happened because they're white.
On Aug. 3, the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments ...
Comments (2)
tthomas48
Be careful what you wish for. It actually became HARDER for whites to get into undergraduate programs at UT once the top 10% rule was put into effect. When you feel that a system is unfair, you might want to remember before complaining that it could be unfair in your favor.
dan scheib
excellent article!! keep up the stellar work