The Supreme Court has granted review for the 2012 term in the case "Fisher v. University of Texas." Abigail Fisher, a rejected white applicant to the University of Texas, has challenged the use of racial and ethnic admission preferences, which the Court had allowed in its 2003 decision involving the University of Michigan law school,…

The real question behind affirmative action in higher education is whether the form of racial discrimination it represents is worth the improved access it provides. Three arguments favoring affirmative action in this context are that affirmative action (1) is needed to keep college admissions officers from discriminating against minorities; (2)…