October 8, 1999
U. of Virginia Poised to Limit Race-Based Admissions; U. of Georgia Keeps Its Preferences
Two elite public universities were heading in starkly different directions last week in their use of race as a factor in admissions decisions. Officials of the University of Virginia appeared close to curtailing affirmative action, while the University of Georgia announced that it would keep its racial-preference policies despite legal advice that they were unconstitutional.
Georgia's president, Michael F. Adams, told a campus forum that affirmative action in
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