The racial diversification of America's higher education system has been at the forefront of legal argument for the last seventy-five years. Ground-breaking decisions birthed the inclusion of affirmative action policies in higher education after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In recent years, both the utility and constitutionality…

In this article we extend Bell's work on interest convergence by using Harris' work on whiteness as property to articulate a cycle of interest convergence, interest divergence, and imperialistic reclamation, or convergence-divergence-reclamation (C-D-R, pronounced "cedar"). We then apply the C-D-R cycle lens to the evolution of federal…

Two legal scholars examine the difficult problem of race-conscious admissions in the wake of the Supreme Court's nondecision in the DeFunis case. (Editor)

Article considered the Supreme Court case involving Marco DeFunis, Jr., a student attempting to gain admission to law school, and the discriminatory attitudes of law school admissions officers contrasted with the legal opinion of Justice William O. Douglas. (RK)

In 1974 the Supreme Court voted not to rule on the issue of preferential treatment for minority students that was presented in the DeFunis case. In his dissent, Justice Douglas argued against preferential racial quotas and criticized reliance on examination scores rather than on individual assessment of applicants. (JG)

In presenting a framework for analyzing preferential policies that use racial, ethnic, or sexual classifications (modifying the correlation between classifications and relevant characteristic), the author, a defender of preferential policies, discusses objections to those policies that do and do not use racial or ethnic classifications to define…

A consideration of the issues in the DeFunis v. Odegaard case focusing on the extent to which the principles of "moral philosophy" are contingent with the requirement of equal protection. Discusses levels of review under the equal protection clause and "benign" racial classifications, and constitutional evaluation of…

With regard to the DeFunis vs. Odegaard law school admission discrimination case, selection models were applied to hypothetical situations based upon evidence in the literature concerning such matters as mean differences between majority and minority groups on predictors and criteria, slopes of the within group regression lines, and correlations…

Two legal problems highlighted by the DeFunis litigation are: (1) the proper role of race in undergraduate admissions; and (2) the procedure of underground graduate admissions. (Author/KE)

Discusses equal opportunity in America, the antecedents of present reverse discrimination cases, discrimination in professional schools' admissions, and reverse discrimination in employment. Concludes that the American people are ready to accept limited affirmative action programs. (Author/IRT)

Presents a symposium on the case of reverse racial discrimination debated in Defunis v. Odegaard. Articles include: Racial Preference and Higher Education: The Larger Context; Affirmative Action and Equal Protection; and Constitutional Limitations on Admissions Procedures and Standards. (PG)

Discusses the suit of an unsuccessful white applicant to a state university who discovers that black candidates with lower test scores and grades are being accepted for the entering class for which he has been rejected. His suit against the university alleges a denial of equal protection, contending he was denied admission because of his race.…

Selection fairness is explored in the context of data from DeFunis v. Odegaard, the recent Supreme Court case, and societal demands for increased numbers of minority professionals. These models of selection fairness are considered: Clary's regression model, Darlington's subjective regression model, the equal risk model of Einhorm & Bass,…

The problems raised by the development of affirmative action and by the Jewish community's response to the complex social and legal issue are analyzed. The analysis focuses upon: initiation of affirmative action by presidential decree and its interpretation and implementation by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in the areas of…