Affirmative Action in College Admissions: You Decide

The question of the use of affirmative action in college admissions is one that may have specifically impacted all of you.  Today, it is up to you to ultimately make a decision about whether or not affirmative action programs should be used in order to increase racial diversity on campus.  Please do the following:

• In the second packet, reread the synopses of the Gratz and Grutter cases.  Then in the same packet, read and annotate the excerpts from the opinion and the dissent.
• Then in the first packet read and annotate the exceprts from the opinion and dissent of the Grutter case.
• Finish reading and annotating the last two articles in the first packet ("Race Neutral University Admissions in the spotlight" and "One Nation Indivisible").
• Read the article posted at this link.

Then, in a 2-4 page argument (double spaced), decide the outcome of either the Texas or Michigan case described in the last article.  Your argument should have a clear thesis and use information from any of the materials provided in class.  Each paragraph of your argument must begin with a clear topic sentence that is an assertion of your argument.  You may do additional research to support your argument but must cite correctly and submit a works cited page if you do.  You should not use first person anywhere in your paper.  Papers should be proofread and error free.
Papers are to be submitted to turnitin.com by Thursday, 4/25.