Status on Proposal 2

<p>Anyone know the status so far today</p>

<p>Yesterday's Michigan Daily (campus newspaper) predicted a "yes" vote of about 70%...exit polls aren't going to really start hitting until around 5PM tonight though.</p>

<p>Excuse me, it was an article in the Daily where a pollster predicted 70% approval.</p>

<p>President Mary Sue Coleman will be speaking tomorrow on the Diag at noon...I knew it would be about the (likely) passage of Proposal 2 before I even opened her email.</p>

<p>would you mind posting info. on the exit poles if you come accross any? (I am out of state so I am limited to anything I find on he internet)</p>

<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/MI/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/MI/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Best I got.</p>

<p>If Proposition 2 is approved....how fast will it take action?</p>

<p>Yes up 62-38% with 3% of precincts in.</p>

<p>if it is approved....will it take place this year? because some decisions have already been released</p>

<p>December...so it is very likely that two different sets of standards will be used.</p>

<p>OMG...i hope i am accepted before December...but my app was complete only like a week ago so i doubt it</p>

<p>Yes up 63-37% with 4% of precincts in.</p>

<p>63-37 with 14% reported</p>

<p>dsmo, what do you mean two different sets of standards will be used?</p>

<p>Also, does anyone know if this will effect prospective transfer students to Michigan? Will it help non-minority transfer students?</p>

<p>I mean that once the admissions office can no longer use race as a factor for admissions, there is then a new set of standards.</p>

<p>Anyways, you can pretty much put this one in the books. CNN reports 58-42% with 47% in. My prediction was pretty close (Would only pass in Wayne, Washtenaw, Oakland.) It is only passing right now in Wayne, Washtenaw, and Ingham (home of MSU) counties. (But there is probablystill a chance of a comeback in Oakland)</p>

<p>There is little evidence it will "help" majority students much. If you do the math, a white applicant's chance for admission edges up only slightly without affirmative action in place. The reality is, the spots "taken" by minority students were not large in number, relatively speaking.</p>

<p>is this year's class affected?('07)</p>

<p>It will be at some point, possibly December</p>

<p>yes, as Hoedown points out, it hurts minorities a lot more than it helps whites.</p>

<p>Still, even as an hispano-american, I had to vote yes. Not only did I despise the tactics used by the opposition group (and not just BAMN), but one must admit that the current policy is RACIST. It takes a pretty shallow person to base something as important as diversity on the color of one's skin.</p>

<p>prop 2 was passed</p>

<p>Well said, hdavid6.</p>