Why the opponents of racial preferences haven't taken America's private universities to court

Authors
Citation
T. Cross, Why the opponents of racial preferences haven't taken America's private universities to court, J BLACK H E, (24), 1999, pp. 106-110
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Education
Journal title
JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
ISSN journal
10773711 → ACNP
Issue
24
Year of publication
1999
Pages
106 - 110
Database
ISI
SICI code
1077-3711(199922):24<106:WTOORP>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
The opponents of affirmative action in college admissions are passionate an d brilliant litigators. After a string of court victories, they now boast t hat almost all of the universities of higher education in the country are g uilty of breaking the law But why is it that these new champions of the Fou rteenth Amendment haven't trained their litigating guns on the most dedicat ed practitioners of race-conscious admissions, particularly our most sought -after private institutions such as Yale, Harvard and Stanford? Could it be that the legal forum that will finally decide this issue is precisely the place where the racial conservatives don't want to be?.