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An upcoming U.S. Supreme
Court case prompted
a panel to discuss the
future of Affirmative Action
Roman Gokhman
Campus/City Culture Reporter
Less than a month remains be
fore the U.S. Supreme Court will
hear oral arguments for controver
sial Affirmative Action programs at
the University of Michigan. In an
ticipation, the University Center
on Diversity and Community held
a panel discussion to debate the
implications of the decisions on
higher education Wednesday.
The complaints, filed by white
students who claim they were de
nied admission to the University of
Michigan’s undergraduate and law
programs in favor of lesser-qualified
students of color, was the main top
ic of debate at “The End of Affirma
tive Action? Diversity, Higher Edu
cation and Public Policy.”
“Affirmative Action is either as
old as the sun or as new as the
1960s,” said moderator Keith
Aoki, an associate professor at the
University School of Law.
University School of Law Instruc
tor Kate Weatherly, a former associ
ate editor of the Michigan Journal
on Race and Law and student at the
University of Michigan when the
lawsuits were filed, said the univer
sity favors white students.
“It’s the biggest Civil Rights case
in 25 years,” she said.
Weatherly said that out of
25,000 freshman admission appli
cations university officials re
ceive, they choose 5,000 on a
point system that favors Cau
casian students.
“They do say they look at each one
individually,” she said sarcastically.
Out of 150 points, Weatherly
said 110 are based on academic
Law school
professor Kate
Weatherly, a
former student at
the University of
Michigan and
former editor of
the Michigan
Journal of Race
and Law, gave
statistical
information on
how the university
chooses its
students at the
CODAC forum on
Affi rmative Action.
Mark McCambridge
Emerald
achievements such as high SAT
scores and high school grades.
Forty points are based on other
factors — 20 for minority status
and 20 for those who are in a so
cial or economic advantage. She
said students cannot qualify for
both categories.
“Those (social and economic
disadvantage points) are for poor
white people,” she said.
Panelist Tomas Nullick Baiza,
assistant director of multicultural
recruitment in University Admis
sions, said the University of Michi
gan’s defense of Affirmative Action
is nothing more than a symbolic
gesture because the university is
close to a large black population.
“It goes a long way to recruit 90
95 percent of African Americans,”
he said.
Baiza said that while he sup
ports Affirmative Action, it would
be foolish to not invent a new
strategy for diversifying universi
ties because the programs will not
last forever.
“We need to look for a new vehi
cle,” he said.
About 80 students, faculty and
community members attended
the panel discussion, which also
included University School of
Law Associate Professor Garrett
Epps, Norman Dorsen Fellow and
Wayne Morse Fellow John
Branam, Director of the Universi
ty Affirmative Action Office Pen
ny Daugherty, Associate Professor
in the Charles H. Lundquist Col
lege of Business Marc Weinstein
and Chief of Human Resources
for the Oregon Department of
Transportation Rudy Williams.
Contact the reporter
atromangokhman@dailyemerald.com.
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