Moving Beyond Affirmative Action – NYTimes.com.
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By THOMAS J. ESPENSHADE
Published: October 4, 2012
Princeton, N.J.
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ON Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas, the latest in a long line of conservative assaults on affirmative action that dates to the late 1970s. Nearly a decade has passed since the court, in Grutter v. Bollinger, approved the continued use of race as one factor in an individualized, “holistic” review of an applicant’s qualifications for higher education. Now even such limited consideration of race is being challenged.
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