The Detroit News. The Detroit News Students march on the University of Michigan's campus during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally in support of affirmative action. Public education is at a place where there is such inequality.
Affirmative action presents an opportunity for underprivileged students.
The lawsuit, brought by an unsuccessful white applicant who says she was discriminated against in favor of minority students with lower grades and test scores, will determine whether it's legal for U-M to consider race in admissions. That's why Nicole Valentine, a University of Virginia Law student, drove 600 miles to U-M last weekend to support the defendants. What happens in court with the U-M case will affect all law schools in America. It's not just U-M's fight, it's everyone's fight. It's an insult to what he stood for.