The Women’s Center hasn’t closed its doors. A scholarship recognizing contributions to Native heritage remains available. And an on-campus summit focused on empowering black men will go on as planned next month. Two and a half weeks after a judge upheld a new state law banning race- and gender-based affirmative action at public institutions, University of Nebraska-Lincoln leaders are finding the worst-case outcomes they once feared haven’t come to fruition. To be sure, the campus has had to make some adjustments: UNL has added two essay questions to its admissions application inviting students to write about their contributions to diversity,...