Affirmative Action in College Admissions

This week we began our look at questions about race and affirmative action. We are going to be focusing our discussions on using race as a criteria in the college admissions process.
We began by working our way through a simulation of being on a college admissions committee that you can find in this packet. We will then start to take a look at the law as it relates to the use of race in the college admissions process by first looking at the Bakke decision that you can find in this packet.  In the packet, for the third day of class this week, students should:

1. Read the summary and answer the questions.
2. Do the Classifying Arguments activity.
3. Follow the instructions on page three as you read the Summary of the Decision (hold off on answering number 5.
4. Follow the instructions as you read the Excerpts from the Majority Opinion.
5. Answer number 5 on page 3.