October 16, 2013
(vol. 124, iss. 11)
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…, segregation never!" "Black, Latino, Arab, Asian and.White, by any means necessary we will fight!" Several University students stood among the crowd where the majority of protesters were from minority…
… and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com MELANIE KRUVELIS and ADRIENNE ROBERTS MATT SLOVIN EDITORIAL PAGE…
… students don't have to go through this difficult process. Furthermore, ballot initiatives were not originally part of the democratic repertoire. The Progressive party added the mechanism in the twentieth…
… understanding is a comp of the complex With legal reasoningin the fight against lot of mov Proposal 2, her arguments were - a 'rarity among BAMN protesters outside the court. University students told me they came…
…- tiative, they struggled, clinging to simplistic reasons and failing to move beyond a single frame of mind. One University student cited the fact that a majority white state passed the law, only doing so to…
… maintain white privilege. Another University student rattled off facts about dropping minority enroll- ment, but could only explain the need to overturn Proposal'2 as a matter of racial justice and whites…
… outvoting minorities. A Univer- sity of California, Berkeley student admitted she couldn't articulate why Proposal 2 was unconstitution- al, but simply reinstating affirmative action was reason enough for her…
… because I ran for student government with a BAMN-sponsored party as a fresh- man and worked for the ACLU. Or maybe I'm just frustrated that people still don't understand affirmative action. Since the first…
… issues at hand in the case itself. Some opponents of affir- mative action are also fully ignorant to the state of race-based admissions as a whole. Multiple Black students explained that some white…
… students concluded they were only admitted to Michigan because of affirmative action, a sentiment I'e heard in per- son plenty of times. Apparently, some opponents of affirmative action don't even realize…