No mas affirmative action in Michigan

<p>Proposition 2, which (among other things) bans affirmative action at state colleges, passed by a wide margin in yesterday's vote. Nobody seems to know how quickly the new policy will take effect.</p>

<p>I wonder how many signatures I would need to get this proposal on the ballot in Maryland and Virginia?</p>

<p>So therefore, TaxGuy, in exchange for passage of such a measure in Maryland and Virginia, you would fully fund and integrate state colleges such as U of Maryland-Eastern Shore and Virginia State University?</p>

<p>what does proposition 2 exactly do?</p>

<p><a href="http://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/ED-138_State_Prop_11-06_174276_7.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/ED-138_State_Prop_11-06_174276_7.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Go to page 5 of the linked article...Proposal 06-2. It is notable that the Democrats easily won the governor and senate races in Michigan, so the landlside vote against affirmative action must have included a lot of people whose overall politics are at least somewhat liberal.</p>

<p>I don't see anything that isn't consonant with the last Supreme Court ruling which, btw, permitted an admissions policy that was based upon "the whole person".</p>

<p>With the passage of proposal 2, admission decisions must be made on the "whole person" minus the identity of race and gender.</p>

<p>Lakewashington, The Maryland state universities are already integrated as far as curriculum. Virginia would be handled separately from Maryland,but I would love to get the same proposal on both state ballots.</p>

<p>What is very interesting about Michigan's Proposal 2,which deals with eliminating affirmative action for state government and state universities, is that the person who sponsored it and promoted it was the plaintiff in the US Surpreme Court decision concerning University of Michigan. I guess she wanted to get even at whatever the cost, and she did!</p>

<p>I am quite aware of the plaintiff's motivation. She is no different that Marco deFunis was in the U of Washington case some years ago.</p>

<p>TaxGuy, you're going to have to elaborate as to the point and significance your statement "integrated curriculum" (rather than integrated student bodies?) in the State of Maryland." I don't believe you meant to, but it sounded perilously close to "separate but equal."</p>

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<p>I don't see how it's enforceable. With the Supremes last ruling they were already under a mandate to eliminate numerical "tips" regarding race. The only other possible motivation of Prop2 would be to foreclose the likely possibility of switching to an "LAC-like" case file system where every decision is made on a case by case basis. It would have been a very expensive system to put in place.</p>

<p>LakeWashington notes,"I don't believe you meant to, but it sounded perilously close to "separate but equal"</p>

<p>Response: LOL, When I said integrated curriculum, I wasn't referring to anything endemic to race. I meant that all Maryland state universities have the same graduation and core requirements.</p>