Romer and Michigan

[Steven Jamar]

Why should someone from Montana get a plus and someone from Maryland  
get a minus at Yale or Columbia or Brown or most NE schools?

Supply and demand?  Is that a sufficient answer?  Why is geographic  
diversity or economic diversity ok but racial diversity is not as a  
matter of policy?  As a matter of law?

Economic background is not the only relevant criteria for diversity.   
Why should there be any need-based grants, Rick?  Why should we  
privilege those who don't have money over those who do?  On an  
individual basis, that is.

Steve



On Nov 10, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Rick Duncan wrote:

> I think there is a big  difference between a scholarship limited  
> to, say, children of dairy farmers, and one limited on the basis of  
> race. It is the same difference the Constitution makes when it  
> treats racial classifications as suspect, but most other  
> classifications (such as ones on the basis of dairy farmer status)  
> as non-suspect. It is the normative notion that persons should not  
> be judged on the basis of race or ethnicity. It is the difference  
> between the way a dairy farmer feels when he is the butt of a joke  
> about dairy farmers, and the way a person feels when he hears a  
> racist or ethnic joke.
>
> Just as the Court takes racial classifications more seriously when  
> confronted with them in litigation, many white working class  
> students take racial injustice more seriously when they experience  
> it. And I think it is particularly difficult for working class  
> people to accept racial classifications that often seem to  
> advantage racial minority students from privileged homes. Why  
> should Steven Carter get a racial plus and Jennifer Gratz get a  
> racial minus when they both apply to Harvard Law School? Ms. Gratz  
> (and I) will never understand that.
>
> Rick Duncan

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