U.S. News // 1 decade ago
Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Affirmative action living on the edge
The U.S. Supreme Court, before going on recess last month, narrowed affirmative action in college admissions as much as it possibly could without killing it. A case accepted for argument next term not only threatens big trouble for what remains of race-based preferential admissions, but for gender-based admissions policies as well.