Affirmative Action

The French television channel, France 3, invited a half dozen international correspondents to examine an issue playing out in the French presidential campaign through their personal lens. Rendezvous’s editor, Marcus Mabry, chose the state of France’s Ara Full Article at The New York Times

NEW YORK, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have elected Earl Lewis to be the Foundation's next President, effective March 2013. Lewis will succeed Don M. Randel, who has served as President since 2006 Full Article at PR Newswire

The Senate race in Massachusetts has taken an interesting turn. The New York Times reports that, while Sen. Scott Brown (D-Mass.) was sinking a half-court shot and picking up endorsements: By contrast, Elizabeth Warren, his main Democratic challenger for Full Article at The Washington Post

Elizabeth Warren , the likely Democratic challenger to Senator Scott P. Brown in the closely watched Senate race in Massachusetts, released statements on Monday night from officials at all of the law schools where she has taught insisting that her hiring Full Article at The New York Times

WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- If you think all the politically controversial cases all have been exhausted this term at the U.S. Supreme Court, think again -- the challenge to affirmative action to be heard sometime next term promises to be a real gunfig Full Article at United Press International

With Obamacare, campaign finance reform and the Arizona immigration law reaching the Supreme Court, there has been a lot of silly and just plain inaccurate writing about the court and what it does. I will take a stab at addressing a handful. 1. “It would Full Article at The Washington Post

Commentator S.E. Cupp on MSNBC slaps back arguments — advanced yesterday by women lawmakers — that perhaps more females in the Secret Service would have prevented the Cartagena prostitution mess. In inveighing against that suggestion, Cupp said: I don’t Full Article at The Washington Post

PARIS — The election in France on Sunday won’t decide its next president but will more likely offer a miserable precedent: a success for a “Rejection Front” that combines the bleak compatibility of the extreme left and right. Notionally at least, with th Full Article at The New York Times

In 1868, Horatio Seymour ran for president as the nominee of the Democratic Party, or the “white man’s party,” as it was called. The Democratic heartland in those days was the “reconstructed” South. White men there loathed the Republican Party and its st Full Article at The Washington Post

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — The former mistress of Bobby Petrino was hired over 158 other applicants after a fast-tracked interview process that athletic director Jeff Long requested at the behest of the now-fired coach, according to a review of university Full Article at The New York Times

In the wake of National Review’s decision to part ways with its longtime contributor John Derbyshire over a frankly racist provocation published in the far-right website TakiMag, the Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf exhumes a long-ago Derbyshire interview i Full Article at The New York Times

NEW YORK, April 9 (UPI) -- Some Texas university admission policies are hampering Hispanics in their efforts to pursue higher education, a study indicates. A Princeton study published online in the journal "Race and Social Problems" found despite people Full Article at United Press International

To the Editor: Re “ To Enroll Minority Students, Colleges Work Around the Courts ” (news article, April 1): Your report elevates the contentious debate over affirmative action, including the laws and restrictions that force colleges and universities to p Full Article at The New York Times

WASHINGTON — For decades, Republicans have railed every four years against the Supreme Court and its perceived liberal activism to spur conservatives to elect presidents who will appoint like-minded justices. Now strategists in both parties are suggestin Full Article at The New York Times

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of the District of Columbia is planting 40 cherry trees, gifts from the National Cherry Blossom Festival, in commemoration of the Centennial Celebration of the original gift of cherry tr Full Article at PR Newswire

My discomfort with hate crime legislation — laws prescribing that a crime committed with a head full of bigotry can be punished more severely than the identical crime committed out of, say, predatory greed or plain old cruelty — has stimulated a lively d Full Article at The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 (UPI) -- An attempt to lift California's voter-approved ban on affirmative action has been rejected by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. In a 3-0 ruling, the court rejected a suit filed by 55 University of C Full Article at United Press International

Affirmative action proponents took a hit Monday as California’s ban on using race, ethnicity and gender in admitting students to public colleges and universities was upheld by a federal appeals court panel. The ruling marked the second time the 9th US Ci Full Article at The New Media Journal

A federal appeals court panel on Monday upheld California’s ban on using race, ethnicity and gender in admitting students to public colleges and universities. The ruling was the second time the Ninth United States Circuit Court of Appeals turned back a c Full Article at The New York Times