Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
"In two split decisions, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that minority applicants may be given an edge when applying for admissions to universities, but limited how much a factor race can play in the selection of students," Anne Gearan of the Associated Press writes in a story from this morning. "The high court struck down a point system used by the University of Michigan, but did not go as far as opponents of affirmative action had wanted. The court approved a separate program used at the University of Michigan law school that gives race less prominence in the admissions decision-making process."
Maybe I am missing something but it seems to me that the most important element of this ruling is that Bakke is still the law of the land, but that UM's undergrad admissions policies were not in line with Bakke.
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I know "sexless marriages is a serious issue and all but I couldn't help but laugh. The Canadians seem to be having a different problem. Their wickedness and immorality are to blame, of course. America is wise to be taking a step to avoid becoming the New Canada.
