At a panel discussion of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) in Ann Arbor yesterday, University of Michigan director of undergraduate admissions Ted Spencer laid out in stark terms the terrible consequences that would follow if racial preferences were barred.
“If we abolish affirmative action, the top minority students that we will no longer be able to get will go to Brown and Penn instead,” Spencer said.
So, Michigan voters, do minority students a favor: vote Yes on Proposition 2 and send them to the Ivy League!
Also on that panel, interestingly, was
Law School Prof. Douglass Kahn [who] helped author the Law School’s affirmative action policy 42 years ago.
He said that at the time he was a strong supporter of racial preferences, but he believed that they would only be around for five to eight years. Now, Kahn said, racial preferences no longer offer the benefit they once did and have a negative effect on society.
