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University of Texas starts work on new admissions policies

By Jim Vertuno

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, June 23, 2003

AUSTIN — The University of Texas will draft new affirmative action admissions policies that include race as a factor as allowed by Monday's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, school President Larry Faulkner said Monday.

Statesman.com

Students at the University of Michigan celebrated Monday after the Supreme Court handed down a decision narrowly upholding affirmative action.

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And so it begins again.

"It's simply unhealthy for a whole class to be admitted on one criteria," Faulkner said.

Does he mean that one criteria that sees no age, no money, no race and no gender: academic achievement?

What will they do about the less than stellar student from a poor white neighborhood? Sorry, you don't have the right kind of "disadvantage"? Sorry, you're not "diverse" enough?