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Affirmative Action
Last Aired: 7/7/2003
In a 5 to 4, end of term, split decision, the U. S. Supreme Court upheld affirmative action programs at public universities. More than twenty years ago the High Court outlawed strict quota systems, but the justices let stand programs that consider race as one of many factors. Two white students who were denied admission to the University of Michigan asked the Court to revisit the 1978 precedent and ...
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