The argument that colleges should not even consider the racial diversity of its student body to give white applicants with destitute qualifications a very slightly better chance isn’t a very compelling oneAmerican conservatives have been engaged in a long war against the constitutionality of affirmative action at public universities and other institutions. The latest battle reached the US supreme court on Wednesday,as the justices once again heard verbal arguments in Fisher v University of Texas, the challenge to the school’s affirmative action program. Supporters of what is still frequently a necessary policy have reason to be pessimistic. Meanwhile, and students who have benefited (or are perceived to have benefited from) such programs have reason to be outraged,after US supreme court justice Antonin Scalia essentially argued that they might not be equipped to profit from admittance to certain tall-quality institutions.
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Source: theguardian.com