Asians suing to end Affirmative Action in college admissions

[valet]

http://colorlines.com/archives/2014...criminating_against_asians_in_admissions.html

Edward Blum, the one-man shop behind attacks on voting rights and affirmative action, is back with his latest lawsuit. Under a newly formed non-profit called Students for Fair Admissions, Blum’s Project on Fair Representation has filed suit against the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Harvard University over their use of race in their admissions policies.

Both universities, the suits allege, discriminate against Asian applicants in favor of lesser-qualified African-American and Latino students. According to the complaint, Harvard violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by intentionally discriminating against applicants on the basis of race, and by engaging in a practice the suit refers to as “racial balancing.” Year after year, Harvard’s racial composition between whites, blacks, Latinos and Asians stays roughly the same, “even though the application rates and qualifications for each racial group have undergone significant changes over time,” the complaint reads (PDF). The suit argues that this is “the deliberate result of systemwide intentional racial discrimination.”

According to the complaint (PDF), UNC fails to comply with standards set forth by the latest affirmative action case to come before the Supreme Court—Fisher v. Texas. Incidentally, Blum’s Project on Fair Representation is the group that located Abigail Fisher, the white plaintiff who sued the University of Texas when she was denied admission. Last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided against re-hearing Fisher’s case. The Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Fisher v. Texas compels UNC to end its current race-conscious admissions process, the lawsuit filed today argues.

This spring, Blum put out a call for plaintiffs who’d been denied admission to UNC-Chapel Hill, Harvard and the University of Wisconsin. His websites prominently featured Asian faces, though in an interview with Colorlines, Blum denied that he was targeting Asians or using them as a wedge to divide different groups of color in a thorny race issue.

 

[88m3]

more bs brought to you by racist cacs with agendas.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Post racial America

 

[DEAD7]

Admission reform is desperately needed.

 

[theworldismine13]

good

 

[Prince Akeem]

Post racial America

There is only one race...The human race.

 

[KingpinOG]

more bs brought to you by racist cacs with agendas.

Asians as a whole overwhelmingly oppose affirmative action.

It is not just "Cacs" with an agenda.

 

[TTT]

Racial balancing done in conjunction with affirmative action helps to keep white numbers up by making the bar higher for Asians and thus limiting their numbers. The other ethnic minorities who score lower on average on SAT tests get to shoulder the blame for AA but whites also benefit from the racial balancing aspect of it because their numbers allow them not to be subject to the upward biasing of SATs that the Asians get.

 

[Serious]

@Camile.Bidan

 

[ltheghost]

Something similar is happening in California. But the Latinos are complaining that too many Asians are getting into the colleges. Maybe the schools need to expand or something. I think everyone should be able to go college if they can get it. Because what people don't realize is that when these kids get into the school there is no guarantee that they are able to perform and stay there.

 

[DEAD7]

Admission should be a pure numbers game.
There shouldn't even be names attached, just test scores IMO

 

[the cac mamba]

Admission should be a pure numbers game.
There shouldn't even be names attached, just test scores IMO

theres worse problems with college nowadays. frankly if you didnt get the fukk in theres several other choices these people had, i dont care if they didn't get in their first choice

 

[Mr Rager]

I'm always on the fence about putting my race on applications, I don't know if that shyt is going work for me () or against me ()

IMO race shouldn't even be a factor in admissions. Let your grades, test scores, and community service do the talking

 

[88m3]

Asians as a whole overwhelmingly oppose affirmative action.

It is not just "Cacs" with an agenda.

Not according to the article.

 

[KingTut]

Was glad that white bytch from texas got her ass wrecked. There were black students who had just as good test scores and gpas that didn't get into UT that year but that cac wanted to play the race card.