March 23, 2001

President Bush Can't Just Ignore Racial Preferences

By ROGER CLEGG

George W. Bush is planning to fight his biggest battles over the size of the tax cut, how Social Security should be restructured, and other economic concerns. But whether he likes it or not, another issue, one that directly affects higher education, may in fact present the new president with even tougher challenges: the widespread use of racial and ethnic preferences.

According to a study that we at the Center for Equal Opportunity released last month, "Pervasive Preferences: Racial

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