University of Texas Sued Over Racist Admissions Policy

Abigail Fisher of Sugar Land was denied admission to the University of Texas because she is white. She has filed suit in federal court

An 18-year-old Sugar Land student sued the University of Texas at Austin on Monday, challenging the school's use of racial preferences in its admissions policy.
Abigail Noel Fisher, a senior at Stephen F. Austin High School in Sugar Land, was named in the lawsuit filed on her behalf by the Project on Fair Representation.
Project director Edward Blum, an activist against race preferences in Houston before he moved to Washington, D.C., said Fisher, who is white, will graduate in the top 12 percent of her class next month but learned in late March that she was not accepted at UT-Austin.
The lawsuit doesn't challenge the top 10 percent law, which guarantees admission to those who finish in the top 10 percent of a Texas high school's graduating class. Instead, it contends that UT-Austin unlawfully uses racial and ethnic criteria to select other students.

I am a UT alum and I hope my alma mater loses this lawsuit. Racial preferences have no place in a civilized society. It doesn't matter if you give such policies nice-sounding names like "affirmative action" or "diversity". They belong in the same trash bin with the Jim Crow laws.