August 10, 2007

Admissions Policy Upheld in Wisconsin

By PETER SCHMIDT

Wisconsin's attorney general has issued an informal legal opinion to state legislators concluding that a race-conscious freshman-admissions policy adopted by the University of Wisconsin's Board of Regents for the entire university system does not conflict with a state law intended to prevent the system's campuses from engaging in discrimination.

Soon after the board adopted the policy, in February, 15 state representatives and four state senators sent Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen a

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