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Republican politicians usually stay away from “affirmative action.” If the topic doesn’t come up in conversation, most don’t bring it up. If it does come up, they stick to platitudes. I’m waiting for the Republican who includes racial preferences in his platform, with a campaign promise to abolish this practice in government. The Center for [...]

“Affirmative action” bake sale demonstrations illustrate a very important point, and I support them wholeheartedly, regardless of the inevitable flak. Standing up for what’s right rarely is easy. A conservative group at Texas Tech University recently held a satirical bake sale in which different people were charged different prices based on race and sex. Asian [...]

Remember last year’s “controversial” racial preferences bake sale at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania? A conservative student group demonstrated the unfair and demeaning nature of lowering standards of admission based on race. The dean shut down the demonstration on a technicality, citing a discrepancy between prices at the time of application and at the time of [...]

June 23 2003 In the most important affirmative action decision since the 1978 Bakke case, the Supreme Court (5–4) upholds the University of Michigan Law School’s policy, ruling that race can be one of many factors considered by colleges when selecting their students because it furthers “a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that [...]