Angry Groups Seeking a Justice Against Affirmative Action

By NEIL A. LEWIS - NYT

Court Upholds Use of Race in College Admissions With Limits

The court divided in both cases. It upheld the law school program that sought a "critical mass" of minorities by a 5-4 vote, with O'Connor siding with the court's more liberal justices to decide the case.

The court split 6-3 in finding the undergraduate program unconstitutional. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote the majority opinion in the undergraduate case, joined by O'Connor and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer.

Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented.

Government has a compelling interest in promoting racial diversity on campus, but the undergraduate school's admissions policy is not the way to get there, the court majority said.

fresnobee.com - Colleges study approaches to gaining minority students
Supreme Court nears ruling on affirmative action in education.
By Greg Gordon

Bee Washington Bureau

College-Bound Students Often Skip Race Question

Excerpt: "I just feel like being a white, middle-class girl from the suburbs is a huge strike against me, and I don't want to further that effect," said Schoen, a 19-year-old Columbia native who just completed her freshman year at the University of Maryland. She added later: "I don't think skin color should have a lot to do with who you are as a person or whether you get into a certain college."

Resisting urge to comment....

Change in Aid Formula Shifts More Costs to Students

Excerpts: Millions of college students will have to shoulder more of the cost of their education under federal rules imposed late last month through a bureaucratic adjustment requiring neither Congressional approval nor public comment of any kind.

The changes, only a slight alteration in the formula governing financial aid, are expected to diminish the government's contribution to higher education by hundreds of millions of dollars, starting in the fall of 2004.

From Welfare To (Course) Work
-Karen W. Arenson - NYT

"The stereotype is that people on welfare are lazy," Ms. Alston said. "But education is my world. I'm going to pursue it and nobody is going to stop me. My main goal now is to promote education for others."

More than 100 Hunter students — most of them welfare recipients — have taken the course, called Community Leadership, and they have chalked up striking successes.

They were the original architects of state legislation three years ago that allows welfare recipients to count work-study programs and internships toward their workfare requirements. More recently, they helped shape legislation passed by the City Council this spring to give welfare recipients broader access to education.

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Center For Talented Youth - Johns Hopkins University

A Workshop for High School Students - Experiences In Architecture

The Experiences in Architecture program at The Catholic University of America is an intense three week workshop for students interested in architecture. There are no specific prerequisites for the course. Students receive ample instruction and guidance. The city of Washington DC becomes a living laboratory for experience, observation and critical analysis. Students have the opportunity to visit architects’ offices and construction sites, and to meet people involved in the building industry. Lectures and films on the profession explore subjects as diverse as landscape design, building technology, urban design, history and theory.

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The Color Lines Conference - Harvard University