Four Asian-American groups filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case Fisher vs. University of Texas on behalf of the plaintiff, Abigail Fisher, who has sued the university’s race-based admissions policy. According to the brief:
“UT’s differing treatment of Asian Americans and other minorities based on each group’s proportion of Texas’s population illustrates why demographic balancing is constitutionally illegitimate…. UT gives no admissions preference to Asian Americans even though ‘the gross number of Hispanic students attending UT exceeds the gross number of Asian-American students attending UT.’ This differing treatment of racial minorities based solely on demographics provides clear evidence that UT’s conception of critical mass is not tethered to the ‘educational benefits of a diverse student body.’ UT has not (and indeed cannot) offer any coherent explanation for why fewer Asian Americans than Hispanics are needed to achieve the educational benefits of diversity.”
S.B. Woo, a retired professor of physics at the University of Delaware, and president of the 80-20 group, said he knew that Tuesday’s action was a significant step. Nine years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court last considered the issue of race in admissions, the group considered filing a brief, but opted not to do so. “We didn’t know enough then to take a clear stand, but now we do,” he said.
In the years since, he said, it has become clear that consideration of race in admissions is not solving the nation’s educational problems and “we now realize how much we have been discriminated against.”
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