A crucial supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. The Central Question being decided this time is should Affirmative Action continue forever In The Name Of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on Asian American students . This is the most important civil Rights Case of our era. I dont think its an overstatement to say theyre freaking out right now. One admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that theyre thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. There has to be some discrimination here. There has to be something against Asian Americans specifically. This case is going to be something more than just about admissions. The notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating for a number of areas of the law. An
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Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the European Parliament has awarded its prestigious human rights award the soccer prize to iran toady he is the professor and member of the ethnic Muslim Minority called weekers who mostly live in china beijing has gone after this group putting an estimated 1000000 of them according to the u. N. In detention camps yes you heard that right detention camps its the largest internment of people since world war 2 toady is serving a life sentence he probably doesnt even know hes won this award china says hes a separatist but what he said and what he tried to do was simply to convey the feelings weekers had about how china was running the territory where most of them live. Maybe they will in the time when we have no representative no newspaper of our own eyes as i thought what can ordinary people do when they encounter in justice oshanter from some of them will fight resist. Even though why a person violence i believe there will be
team to get the job done? now, if the answer to those questions is no, and i imagine it is for most of you, then neither man is really capable of serving as a u.s. senator or the u.s. president. at least not without a lot of people making decisions for him and, of course, this is exactly what s happening in both cases. now here we are, four months later, sadly vindicated, wondering how two women closest to sick men in declining health can even live with themselves. both jill biden and gisele fetterman know better than anyone how unfit to serve their hubs are. as bad as both men have looked and sounded at various times to the rest of us, imagine how bad they are behind closed doors. but, of course, these women lie to themselves and then they lie to us. how will this episode affect the campaign and his upcoming schedule? and as soon as he s back he ll be back on the trail. i don t think it s going to affect it. the president s campaign this week released an ad just real
[crowd murmuring] - a crucial supreme court ruling on affirmative action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. - the central question being decided this time: is should affirmative action continue forever in the name of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on asian american students? this is the most important civil rights case of our era. i don t think it s an overstatement to say they re freaking out right now. one admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that they re thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. there has to be some discrimination here. there has to be something against asian americans specifically. this case is going to be something more than just about admissions. the notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating