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[Alberta's Child]

Based on the legal reasoning used in the VMI case, there are very few truly "private" colleges and universities in the U.S. Any school that receives public funding in one form or another will have to conform with whatever the public policy is at any given time. I'm sure even Ivy League schools receive government grants for research efforts.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Ann Coulter appeared on one of the talking-head shows last night opposite a pin-head who kept saying the Michigan admissions case "has nothing to do with the Constitution".

If it has nothing to do with the Constitution why is the case before the US Supreme Court?

[jamaksin]

Cornell is an odd duck in the Ivy League - part is public, part is private.

[TBP]

The Ivy League schools and others can be brought under the umbrella of this decision because they are "recipient institutions" -- that is, although officially private, they receive government funds, and are therefore subject to government regulations on admissions and other things.

In fact, there are very few colleges in the country that don't fall under the rubric of "recipient institution." My alma mater, Hillsdale College, is perhaps the most prominent. Grove City and a few others also fall into the category of completely private colleges.

[Eva]

If this would not effect private institutions, Title IX would have had no effect either. The punishment is withdrawal of federal funds.

[Digger]

The brief accepts the quota system. It reads different than what Bush inferred. This just argues the point that Micigan went too far. So again we get a half-a$$ed answer from an half-a$$ed so-called conservative president that, as I have stated for years & will continue, this government will NOT make this country anywhere truly conservative because these eleites that run the country do NOT want it & they own the politicians. (Once in a while GW has to throw a bone to the conservatives. This is it w/o any meat on it. And you all fall for it. then this allows a liberal view to be made on substantial issues- the man for all people- Wake up & smell the coffee)

[Dan Day]

This "Mallard Fillmore" cartoon was draw *years* ago:

[WARF]

Very Good point!!!

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Let me ask another question that I haven't seen broached: does the U. of Michigan "quota" system (or preferences system) apply only to the undergraduate program and the Law School? What about the medical school? I wonder if their medical school had such a "preferences" program... Maybe this question would show the hypocrisy of such preferences: it's OK to allow "less qualified" students into the Law School or Undergraduate school under the rationale of diversity but I would bet the Medical School wouldn't allow that kind of "merit-less" acceptance system. Just wondering... or speculating.