Surely, you already know the answer to your question, don't you?
It's because Republicans are afraid. Afraid of the media. Afraid of being called the "R" word.
So, any time racial preferences are at issue, they're going to cower in the corner. <
Besides which UT is more or less a law unto itself. "The University" has been allowed to do pretty much what it wants to do. In fact, I'm not sure it even takes any state money -- having a vast endowment of oil royalties.
Yeah, I do know the answer. I just wish the GOP couldn’t so brazenly betray the people who actually vote for them (i.e. whites) like they do.
I certainly don’t know the circumstances of how UT operates. But as long as they are a public university, then the legislature should be able to exercise some control over it. I would be its more about the cowardice than giving UT a free reign.