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-4 posts tagged "Affirmative action"
Letter to the Editor | Friday, February 17, 2017
I belong. I belong to the this University (even after graduation). I belong to this nation. I belong. It isn’t something I’ve always felt confident about, this sense of belonging. Although born and raised in the United States, I grew up with an acute awareness that my last name, Fernandez, marked me as different. It
BridgeND | Thursday, October 6, 2016
The following is a hypothetical conversation between Betty and Elena. Betty: Hey, did you go to that meeting the other night? Elena: The one about affirmative action and women? Nah, I didn’t agree with their position. Betty: Really? You know, I think we should rethink the affirmative action system; I agree with them. Elena: How
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, April 24, 2014
It was with great distaste that I heard the verdict on one of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings. The decision in Schuette v. BAMN, the aforementioned case, concluded that there is no authority in the Constitution of the United States that prohibits the cumulative voter’s determination, in the state of Michigan, to ban the use of
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, April 23, 2014
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court voted 6-2 in Schuette v. BAMN to allow states to place bans on public universities taking race into account when considering admission of prospective students. Perhaps the most striking note about this decision was its margin. On what has been a controversial issue, the ruling was decisively in favor of