University of Michigan Law School

Affirmative Action—the consideration of race in college admissions—allows colleges to admit students based on their race to increase campus diversity, even if their academic standing is not as high as other students applying to the university. A common fallacy is that minorities are underrepresented in higher education, and while this may be historically accurate, there is a new group that is losing the benefits of higher education—lower class students. By extending more opportunities to these…

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up from school, but I was called down to the office and told to clean out my locker and get everything of mine because I was leaving. At the time I really had no idea what was going on or where I was going. Once I got to the office I didn 't see my mom, dad or grandma. I was very confused. I sat in a chair and waited for my sister, who walked in with the same look of confusion on her face. That’s when I saw her. A blond haired woman who I instantly recognized; it was my grandma from Michigan…

life. College for athletes is depicted as this aspiring perfect utopian world, but when the doors are opened to the truth, athletes discover the dystopian world they are living in. A utopia is described as “a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social…

plastic manufacturing industries. Mr. Howes also has prior work experience with companies including BFGoodrich Specialty Chemicals, and Martin Marietta Aerospace. On the side, Mr.Howes partakes in private investing and consulting. He graduated from Michigan State in 1980, where he earned his Bachelor of…

potential pregnancies. She and another physician involved claimed that the 14th amendment was violated in regards to the accessory statue. The law says that any person that uses any drug preventing conception is subject to fines, greater than forty dollars, or even imprisoned for 60 days. Any person who also assists in this can be prosecuted. This Connecticut law overall prohibited the counseling as well as other medical treatment to any couple that was looking to prevent contraception or the…

gpa and a score of 161 on her LSAT. The University did admit that it takes race into consideration for the use of creating a more diverse school. It was held that the Schools interest in diversity was not in fact compelling enough to the court. After being brought to the court of Appeals, though, a binding precedent did establish this as compelling and they say it should be viewed under strict scrutiny. The legal issue here is deciding wether the Law school has the right to take race into…

all too familiar with hearing is, ‘You can’t like both Ohio State and Michigan’. As a native to southern Ohio, it was inevitable that I would grow up to be a die-hard Buckeye just like my parents. There used to be a running joke between my dad and his friends that we’d know the world was ending the day a Rogers child decided to attend ‘that school up north’. If this was true, the world would have ended the day of my high school graduation. As I walked across the stage, I awaited the laughter…

three years later. A conference on physical training was held in Boston in 1889. Three years later Ohio passed a mandatory physical education law, to be followed by Wisconsin (1897), North Dakota (1899), Pennsylvania (1901), Michigan (1911) and Idaho (1913). Between 1915 and 1925, 21 more states passed laws enforcing different levels of physical education in schools. In addition, the international Olympics was started in 1893, the first event held in Athens, Greece in 1896. Other events were the…

movement which began in the 1960s and publically considered the idea of permitting diverse students in college admissions. In 1978, the Supreme Court case of Regents of University of California v. Bakke finally established diversity in higher education as a compelling state interest which “justif[ied] the consideration of race in university admission” (27) and therefore enabled the beginnings of programs and initiatives in favor of affirmative action. In the second phrase, “voluntary affirmative…