A long-time opponent of the use of affirmative action in college
admissions is challenging a black Detroit student to a public debate.
Article here.
Jennifer
Gratz, who sued the University of Michigan and helped lead a successful
drive to get Michigan voters to ban the use of the affirmative action,
in a news release Thursday issued the challenge to University
Preparatory Academy senior Brooke Kimbrough.
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The issue of race is boiling at U-M. It is the centerpiece of a second
Supreme Court case looking at the constitutionality of Michigan’s ban on
the use of race in admissions. That decision is likely to come this
spring. The school’s Black Student Union has been protesting the lack of
minority students on campus and has been meeting all winter with
administrators about the issue. The two sides recently announced a
series of agreements the student group called small victories.
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