Texplainer: What Happens if UT Loses the Fisher Case?
Hey, Texplainer: If the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin case is decided in the plaintiff's favor, what will happen to UT?
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a major case that challenges the University of Texas at Austin’s use of race as a factor in some admissions decisions — or, as the university argues in its legal brief, a “factor of a factor of a factor of a factor.”
UT only uses race as one element in its decision-making process, part of a holistic review of an applicant who fails to qualify ...
Comments (18)
Michelle Michon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Sure.... whatever.
C.g. David via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And?
Michelle Michon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm so tired of TT's right wing stance.
Michelle Michon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
TTribune.... Texas is gonna be a BLUE State one day and then what are you gonna do? You're in print and this is all gonna come back and bite you one day.
Amy DeWeese via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That's already the case if you're Caucasian.
Adam W Vanek via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Like it already is now... And if a student does get in, will he/she be able to afford the now customary annual increase in tuition.
Cesar Martinez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Michelle, your post is completely incoherent. There is nothing right wing or left wing about this article. They are just stating the potential consequences of a ruling. You can be in favor or against those consequences, but this article does not establish any position towards it.
Jill Meredith Bergene via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Spoiled little brats...all of 'em.
Merryl Redding via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Isn't that good? Higher standards are needed. EVEN South Park made that statement.
Matthew J Christensen via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So it's alright for minorities to almost automatically get into UT, yet for others they shouldn't have the same chance? Racism is always so nice when you're on the other side. Equality for ALL, whether brown, yellow, white, black, pink or technicolor.
Monte Osburn via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"...may be to prevent ...their class from attending the state’s most elite public university." Most elite? really? Give me TEXAS A&M anyday. Gig'em.
David Sergi via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And lots of rich white folks will bus themselves to poor performing inner urban schools so they can steal that top ten slot. Won't that be funny to watch.
Matthew J Christensen via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@David If you read the article you would see that the top 8% already gain acceptance so they still could do it if they wanted..surprise, surprise it isn't happening.
Rob D Wiltzius via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Go to a different school. Texas A&M, Texas Tech, University of Houston, Baylor, UTEP. Or you could excel at athletics and get a scholarship. We should be promoting excellence, not rewarding mediocrity.
Ramiro Canales
Former Texas Representative Veronica Gonzales (D-Mcallen) was the author of the "Hook'em Amendment," which would prohibit UT-Austin from imposing a cap on freshman admissions if its affirmative action is struck down.
Kenneth Franks
I started at U.T. 33 years ago this Fall. This was before the legislature let the university implement the 10% rule. After my first semester, there was little doubt however that well over 90% of everyone there was a top 10% student.
Rudy Gonzales
Texas created the top 10 percent law in 1997 as a creative way to ensure geographic and ethnic diversity in the state’s top public universities without using affirmative action, which was facing a legal challenge at the time. Subsequent modifications by the Legislature, provisions and adjustments have further complicated the admissions process. Now we have yet another challenge to the 1997 law and the Supreme Court having to step in and fix it springs eternal for right-wingers making their views and issues trump proportionality on ethnicity. Ad to this conundrum when you call the governor's office and when put on hold you hear Perry go off on Washington DC, block grants, Obama and all kinds of other BS. The Governor's office has a phone system put in and funded by taxpayer's money. The only thing I swant to hear is MUSAK and not political spiel.
Anya Khan
I may be wrong, but as I understand it from this article. UT accepts the top 10% across the board, unless they need more minorities, then people outside the top 10 are accepted?