<p>The Supreme Court decision that affirmed the use of race as an admissions criterion at the University of Michigan law school already has conservative ideologues busily plotting ways to eliminate affirmative action. The Center for Individual Rights, which backed the white women who brought lawsuits against the university, threatened more lawsuits and ''close scrutiny'' of affirmative action plans. But it is California's Ward Connerly who's really audacious. He announced this week that he wants to export to Michigan California's Proposition 209, the measure he pushed that outlawed the use of race in admissions, employment and contracting.</p>