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Bush Declares Opposition to Race-Based Admissions
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Jan 15, 2003 05:37pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:37:01 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Bush declared his opposition to University of Michigan admissions policies that he said give unfair and unconstitutional preference to black and Hispanic students, injecting the White House into the Supreme Court's most far-reaching affirmative action case in a generation.
Bush, who faced a Thursday deadline for registering opposition with the high court, applauded efforts to increase diversity on the nation's college campuses, but argued that Michigan's approach created a "quota system" that is "divisive, unfair and impossible to square with the Constitution."
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