January 6, 2006

Battle Over Race-Conscious Admissions Continues in Mich.

By PETER SCHMIDT

Michigan's affirmative-action battle just keeps getting uglier.

Opponents of race-conscious college admissions appeared to have won a key victory early last month, when Michigan's Court of Appeals ordered the state's Board of State Canvassers to place a proposed constitutional amendment banning race- and gender-based preferences on the November ballot. But the board failed to certify the ballot initiative, in defiance of the court's order, after high-school students from Detroit

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