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Appeals Court Upholds Affirmative Action at the University of Texas
Aleksander Chan · 07/15/14 05:31PMThe Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the University of Texas' consideration of race in its admissions process, writing in their 2-1 decision that the university's affirmative action practices are narrowly tailored to increasing diversity at the school. The case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, had been vacated and remanded by the Supreme Court last year.
The White Student Suing to Overthrow Affirmative Action Was Too Dumb to Get Into Her Chosen College
Tom Scocca · 03/20/13 04:30PMLife is tough for white people in America. A few hundred years of presumed superiority have left many of them psychologically unable to deal with failure, trapped in a cycle of victimhood where their own shortcomings can only be understood as evidence of persecution against them. So we have Abigail Fisher, 23 years old, and the plaintiff in Fisher v. University of Texas, which is currently being weighed by the Supreme Court.