Posted on 01/23/2003 9:56:25 AM PST by Teacher317
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:26:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
By implication, the legal challenge to race discrimination in admissions at the Michigan Law School now before the Supreme Court of the United States also challenges the race discrimination in admissions at the Indiana University Law School in Bloomington.
As at Ann Arbor, we at Bloomington enforce a de facto quota of the minimum number of blacks and other minorities we are determined to enroll in each first-year law school class. And as at Ann Arbor, we engineer our admissions process to guarantee that when the first-year class shows up in late August, our de facto quota will once again be met.
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I don't care for F Lee Bailey but he did say something one time I agreed with. He said the bar exam is so easy that it does not weed out the incompetents.
My Nephew graduated a few years ago from a prestigious law school. He was first in his class untill the last couple of months when he got heavily involved with a girl (who is now his wife). He still finished near the top, anyway he told me the bar exam was really really easy.
This is an example of one problem solving another problem . . . .
If I gave prospective employees a written exam which minorities tended to flunk, I would be sued for racial discrimination under the "disparate impact" rule. How long before the bar exam is cancelled for the same reasons
I would really like to see someone do a study on how financial aid is handled. If this statement is correct, this may actually be more of a time-bomb than the entrance Affirmative Action as it regards tax-payer funding being used in discriminatory fashion.
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