Why Not a Remedy for Past Discrimination?

U. of Michigan's diversity-based defense makes a case for affirmative action

By PETER SCHMIDT

Ann Arbor, Mich.

The group of about two dozen eighth graders being led across the University of Michigan's campus here seemed out of place for reasons besides their age.

They were black, and most of the university students around them were white. They had come from Murphy...

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