U of Georgia Unconstitutional -- Press Release

[Victor Steinbok <Victor.Steinbok@VERIZON.NET>]

Tell me who your friends are...

Yet another NAS piece of propaganda. Don't forget where the NAS money
comes from.

       VS-)

http://www.nas.org/print/pressreleases/hqnas/releas_29aug01.htm
U of Georgia Unconstitutional -- Press Release

Press Release
NAS Hails Court Ruling in U of Georgia Case

Contact: <mailto:nas@nas.org>Bradford P. Wilson, Executive Director,
(609) 683-7878 (nas@nas.org)

PRINCETON, NJ -- 29 August 2001 -- The National Association of
Scholars today praised Monday's ruling by the U. S. Court of Appeals
in Atlanta, where a three-judge panel for the 11th Circuit
unanimously upheld a lower court's ruling that the University of
Georgia's discriminatory undergraduate admissions policies are
unconstitutional. The court held that the University's efforts to
maintain a diverse student body emphasized racial identity almost
"mechanically and inexorably," without weighing other potentially
significant factors. As such, the program was not "narrowly tailored"
in its consideration of race, and worked unfairly against
non-minority applicants.

NAS Executive Director Bradford Wilson characterized the ruling as
"one more step in the slow but steady dismantling of race-based
admissions policies in American institutions of higher education.
Hopefully, we can begin to recover on our campuses the original
meaning of affirmative action, which rightly sought to guarantee
everyone a fair chance, regardless of race."

The National Association of Scholars has submitted briefs in current
suits against the University of Michigan's policies of racial
preference and recently published Race and Higher Education, an
empirical study that, according to the Wall Street Journal Online,
"demolishes the 'diversity defense.'" These materials are available
online at www.nas.org.

The National Association of Scholars is America's foremost higher
education reform group. Located in Princeton, it has forty-six state
affiliates and more than four thousand professors, graduate students,
college and university administrators and trustees as members.

The National Association of Scholars
221 Witherspoon Street, Second Floor
Princeton, NJ 08542-3215
(609) 683-7878
(609) 683-0316/fax
http://www.nas.org

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