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	<description>&#34;Race has no place in American Life or Law&#34;</description>
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		<title>Roger Clegg: What do you think of affirmative action?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican politicians usually stay away from &#8220;affirmative action.&#8221; If the topic doesn&#8217;t come up in conversation, most don&#8217;t bring it up. If it does come up, they stick to platitudes. I&#8217;m waiting for the Republican who includes racial preferences in his platform, with a campaign promise to abolish this practice in government. The Center for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Garaufis Biased Against Whites?</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/25/judge-garaufis-biased-against-whites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorneys for New York City have asked that Brooklyn federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis be removed from the case that-shall-never-end for bias against white firefighters. Garaufis appointed an independent monitor to oversee FDNY&#8217;s efforts to increase so-called diversity in the department, which the judge called &#8220;a stubborn bastion of white male privilege.&#8221; About four million of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roger Clegg on Duke Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Equal Opportunity&#8217;s Roger Clegg has a blog post up at Minding the Campus about the Duke study I blogged about on Monday. His is a great title and sums up the main objection nicely: No Research, Please, Unless It Helps Our Cause The study revealed that white students enter college with higher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duke: Effects of Lowered Admissions Standards</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/23/duke-effects-of-lowered-admissions-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/23/duke-effects-of-lowered-admissions-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;euphemistically known as &#8220;affirmative action.&#8221; When I first read about &#8220;What Happens After Enrollment: An Analysis of the Time Paths of Racial Difference in GPA and Major Choice (32 pages in PDF),&#8221; by Duke University economists Peter Arcidiacono and Esteban Aucejo and sociologist Ken Spenner, the results seemed intuitive to me. Students admitted with lesser [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerry Brown Still Opposes Prop. 209</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/17/jerry-brown-still-opposes-prop-209/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/17/jerry-brown-still-opposes-prop-209/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The battle to overturn racial neutrality in California&#8217;s government continues. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a federal court will consider a challenge to Proposition 209, a voter-approved law that bars the government from granting preferences to or discriminating against individuals or groups based on race in education, employment, and contracting. And Governor Jerry Brown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lee Bollinger on Fisher v. Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/17/lee-bollinger-on-fisher-v-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/17/lee-bollinger-on-fisher-v-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Bollinger, former president of the University of Michigan and defendant in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, penned an op-ed for the Washington Post. He still supports racial preferences. (Surprise!) Bollinger quotes a letter George Washington wrote to Alexander Hamilton about points he should have raised in his Farewell Address&#8211;education and the university&#8211;to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Kahlenberg on Fisher v. Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/13/richard-kahlenberg-on-fisher-v-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/13/richard-kahlenberg-on-fisher-v-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Century Foundation senior fellow Richard Kahlenberg gets to the core issue in Fisher v. Texas, namely, why schools with race-neutral admissions policies that work still resort to racial preferences. From the Chronicle of Higher Education: &#8220;The case, Fisher v. Texas, presents the question of whether an institution of higher education is allowed to use race [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorized America</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/12/colorized-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/12/colorized-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day the current crop of &#8220;affirmative action&#8221; opponents will be no more, which is why I&#8217;m heartened to know there are young people who think deeply about the unfairness of racial preferences and the double standards their existence encourages. Alex Gushner, a senior at the University of California at Santa Barbara, writes in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey Supremes, Take the Fisher Case</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/10/hey-supremes-take-the-fisher-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/10/hey-supremes-take-the-fisher-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are some racial preferences opponents eager for the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit racial preferences? I want the court to hear Fisher v. Texas to determine how states have applied eight-year-old Grutter v. Bollinger, the case that allows taxpayer-supported schools to use race as a &#8220;plus&#8221; factor in admissions. Although schools must consider race-neutral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Purdy on Fisher v. Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/09/larry-purdy-on-fisher-v-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/09/larry-purdy-on-fisher-v-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Purdy was trial counsel for plaintiffs Barbara Grutter and Jennifer Gratz in racial preferences cases Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger. He also wrote a book titled Getting Under the Skin of &#8220;Diversity&#8221;: Searching for the Color-Blind Ideal, in which he offered a rebuttal to The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of [...]]]></description>
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