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COLEMAN ADDRESS
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cial aid, scholarships and grants, and
promised faculty and staff that none
of their jobs are in danger.
Bythetimethe affirmative action
ban takes effect, which could be
late December, University officials
need to determine how the consti-
tutional amendment applies to pro-
grams that promote diversity.
Coleman promised that the Uni-
versity will retain all of those pro-
grams, even if it must change them
to comply with Proposal 2.
"We will continue to review
all of our programs dedicated to
minority affairs and campus diver-
sity to ensure that they comply with
the law as we have done for many
years," Coleman said.
Coleman said the University will
ask the courts to allow the Univer-
sity to use its current admissions
process for the duration of this
admissions cycle. It would be unfair
to judge applicants based on two
different sets of criteria, she said.
Because MCRI's language is
vague, the University is not entire-
ly sure how it will adapt to the pro-
posal, Coleman said in an interview
with The Michigan Daily after the
speech.
The University's legal team is
currently considering multiple pos-
sibilities, she said.
In her speech, Coleman pledged
that the University would continue
to fight for diversity within the
framework of the law.
"We believe so strongly in affir-
mative action that we went before
the United States Supreme Court to
defend its role, and we prevailed,"
Coleman said. "Today, I pledge that
the University of Michigan will
continue this fight."
It seemed to be an emotional
moment for Coleman, who hugged
University Regent Olivia Maynard
before the speech.
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dents soliciting donations for C.S.
Mott Women's and Children's Hos-
pital rose and fell above the masses
of people.
As Coleman said "I believe there
are serious questions as to whether
this initiative is lawful," three stu-
dents stood eating Jimmy John's
sandwiches and peering up at a
news helicopter hovering above.
"Vote Yes on 2" signs dotted the
crowd, drawing scattered com-
ments but not much attention.
The crowd was mostly divided,
but there were few moments of
racial tension.
Above the din of rining bells
from Burton Tower, one black stu-
dent said, "I wonder why it's only
white people holding up signs."
It was not all mild indifference,
though. The crowd swelled to an
estimated 2,000 people by the end.
Some were lined up three deep on
the ramps leading up to the library.
Near the end, Coleman said, "No
one - no one - should ever forget
that every student at Michigan is
highly qualified" - she had to stop
here to wait for the most thunder-
ous applause of the address to die
down - "and has rightfully earned
his or her place here."
Afterward,peoplemilledaround,
analyzing the speech and the situ-
ation the University finds itself in.
For some, it was probably the most
in-depth conversation they would
have about the proposal that could
drastically change the makeup of
campus.
It wasn't long before one of the
students manning the teeter-tooter
said, "Let's raise some money while
people are still here."
A fewpeopleposedonthe lectern
Coleman had been speaking from
only moments before while their
friends snapped their pictures,
which have almost surely already
turned up on Facebook.com.
Coleman's walk back to the
Fleming Administration Building
was interrupted by a student who
took a hiatus from a cell phone call
to say "thank you" before returning
the phone to his ear.
Finally the Diag began to empty.
Students headed off to class, prac-
tice, their apartments, Espresso
Royale, the Fishbowl. With their
iPod headphones reinserted in their
ears, they strode off toward the rest
of their lives.
- Christina Hildreth
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halfway through the admissions
cycle - a scenario the administra-
tion desperately wants to avoid.
"Today, I have directed our Gen-
eral Counsel to consider every legal
option available to us," Coleman
told the crowd.
Because the potential impact
of Proposal 2 has been known for
months, many observers expected
swift legal action by the University
yesterday to maintain the continuity
of this year's admissions process.
But it was the radical pro-affir-
mative action group By Any Means
Necessary, not University lawyers,
that went to the U.S. District Court
in Detroit yesterday afternoon to
try to block the implementation.
A spokesperson for BAMN did
not return phone calls for comment
on the lawsuit yesterday.
In an interview after her address,
Coleman said she was unsure when
the University would file its first
legal challenges to Proposal 2, but
she expected she would know with-
in a few days.
"The lawyers are working hard
on this," Coleman said.
officials at the University of
California and the University of
Texas systems successfully delayed
the bans on their affirmative action
programs in the courts until after
completingtheir admissions cycles.
Coleman said she is optimistic
the courts would side with the Uni-
versity and allow this year's admis-
sions cycle to continue unaffected
by Proposal 2.
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But such an outcome is not nec-
essarily certain.
Any legal action brought by
the University against Proposal 2
would name the state of Michigan,
represented by Attorney General
Mike Cox, as the defendant.
Cox, a Republican who was
elected to a second term Tuesday,
has actively opposed the Univer-
sity's affirmative action policies in
the past.
In rare act of defiance by an
Attorney General, Cox refused a
2003 request by Governor Jennifer
Granholm to author an amicus brief
on behalf of the state supportingthe
University in Gratz v. Bollinger.
This year Cox was the only state-
wide candidate from a major party
that openly supported Proposal 2.
Cox could not be reached for
comment yesterday.
Doug Tietz, a spokesman for the
Michigan Civil Rights Initiative,
criticized Coleman yesterday for
trying to "trump the opinion of 58
percent of the electorate."
Looking to the long term, Cole-
man reiterated the University's
commitment to diversity.
"We will find ways to overcome
the handcuffs that Proposal 2
attempts to place on our reach for
greater diversity," Coleman said in
her address.
She said the University cannot
allow itself to experience the same
fate as the University of California
at Berkley, where minority enroll-
ment collapsed after California
voters banned affirmative action
programs 10 years ago.
Both California and Texas exper-
imented with different schemes to
Thursday, November 9, 2006 - 7A
prop up minority enrollment after
their affirmative action policies
were banned. The University of
Texas adopted a 10 percent plan,
guaranteeing admission to the top
10 percent of every high school
senior class.
In an interview with the Daily
after the speech, Coleman said she
does not think a similar approach
would work in Michigan and that
such a plan would be harmful to
students in highly competitive high
schools.
"We have analyzed (percent
plans) and we don't think it is a
good idea," Coleman said. "It is too
mechanistic."
In her address to the Univer-
sity community, Coleman asked for
help from alumni, current students,
faculty and high school principals
in reaching out to potential appli-
cants.
But beyond that, University offi-
cials have not yet articulated how
they intend to avoid the fate of UC-
Berkeley. Still Coleman appeared
confident that the University would
be able to overcome the constraints
of the proposal in the long term.
After her address, Coleman said
there are no easy ways to replace
affirmative action programs, but
that she has already asked the
admissions office to begin think-
ing about creative ways to maintain
diversity on campus.
"We will think of something,"
she said in the post-address inter-
view. "This is the University of
Michigan."
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