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A white female will bring the issue of affirmative action policy in college admissions before the U.S. Supreme Court after a nine-year hiatus, her accusations aimed at the University of Texas. The nations highest court will hear oral arguments this fall ...

Lawsuit against UT could reshape affirmative action
SAN DIEGO -- First came the weekend tweet from Tony Young, San Diegos City Council president: My daughter was accepted into the college of her choice today. Soon she will be off to Philly. Dude, replied Young, an African American, you are ...

U-T: Affirmative Action Tweet Gets Negative Reaction
Bradley County Planning commissioners approved a rezoning request Tuesday over the objections of about 100 people, including two county commissioners, who crowded into the Bradley County Courthouse. County Commissioners Terry Caywood and Ed Elkins, who both represent the 1st District, asked the

Planners approve rezoning request
In my weekend column, I was inclined to give Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law Schools sole tenured Native American, the benefit of the doubt that she was 1/32nd Cherokee. But it turns out Im wrong. Shes 1/32nd Cherokee-forcible-remover ...

Bury My Affirmative-Action Program at Wounded Knee
The head of the Massachusetts Republican Party wants Harvard to investigate whether Elizabeth Warren, a faculty member and U.S. Senate candidate, misled the university by claiming Native American ancestry, which might have allowed her to take advantage of ...

Affirmative Action's Stigma
Before affirmative action in college admissions, I always thought of the few minority students at the University of Illinois as special, somehow gifted to have often overcome adversity to make it to the Big U. After affirmative action ...

Who should get into top colleges?
Koforidua, May 7, GNA - A two-day dialogue on Affirmative Action Bill opened in Koforidua on Monday. Leadership of political parties, parliamentarians and gender equality advocates are attending the event, which is the second round table on increasing ...

Dialogue on Affirmative Action opens in Koforidua
Will the U.S. Supreme Court Uphold Race-Based Affirmative Action? pages 1 - 3 - UCLA and Professor Face Fines and Criminal Charges in the Aftermath of Fatal Lab Fire pages 4 - 5 - Law School Dean Subject to Personal Liability under Civil Rights Act of 1871 ...

Higher Education Highlights - Spring 2012
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Fifteen years ago, California became the first state to ban the consideration of race and ethnicity in public university admissions. Since then, the state's most selective public colleges and graduate schools have struggled ...

U.S. Supreme Court is set to revisit affirmative action in college admission
The Supreme Court of the United States is about to hear a case that may change the status quo on affirmative action. Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin is going to be heard this term and may cause constitutional interpretations to be ...