badger
6/24/2013, 10:30 AM
7-1 decision. (http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/High_court_sends_back_Texas_race_based_plan/20130624_13_0_WASHIN133559?subj=298)
The Obama administration, 57 of the Fortune 100 companies and large numbers of public and private colleges that feared a broad ruling against affirmative action backed the Texas program. Among the benefits of affirmative action, the administration said, is that it creates a pipeline for a diverse officer corps that it called "essential to the military's operational readiness." In 2003, the court cited the importance of a similar message from military leaders.
I really didn't mind OU's emphasis on diversity when I went there in the early to mid aughts. The foreign students on our floor were lots of fun. A Japanese student told me she decided to go there because her older brother said they had a good football team (she had no idea what "football" was).
I have heard that it is near-impossible to get into UT if you aren't a top 10 percenter (or now, a top 8 percenter). Maybe it's an evil plot to make more kids attend Texas Tech :P
The Obama administration, 57 of the Fortune 100 companies and large numbers of public and private colleges that feared a broad ruling against affirmative action backed the Texas program. Among the benefits of affirmative action, the administration said, is that it creates a pipeline for a diverse officer corps that it called "essential to the military's operational readiness." In 2003, the court cited the importance of a similar message from military leaders.
I really didn't mind OU's emphasis on diversity when I went there in the early to mid aughts. The foreign students on our floor were lots of fun. A Japanese student told me she decided to go there because her older brother said they had a good football team (she had no idea what "football" was).
I have heard that it is near-impossible to get into UT if you aren't a top 10 percenter (or now, a top 8 percenter). Maybe it's an evil plot to make more kids attend Texas Tech :P