January 14, 2005

Time Has Not Favored Racial Preferences

By ROGER CLEGG

The end of 2004 brought plenty of news to make college officials uneasy at institutions that treat their students and applicants differently on account of their skin color or what country their ancestors came from.

At the end of November, the Office for Civil Rights at the Education Department pressured the state of Wisconsin into changing a minorities-only scholarship program to one that allows participation by students of all races. In early December, The Chronicle reported that the

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