The truth is that affirmative action has nothing to so with quotas. Affirmative action is not a handout. It simply states that if two applicants are of equal caliber and the university is under represented in any specific category that a decision to admit the student from the under represented background is appropriate. It is a system that says that the university should make a good faith effort to represent the community in which it operates. It does not even have an enforcement policy.
Affirmative action is good for the United States, especially in education.
That brings me to the Higher Education Act. There is not too much support for this type of move right now but the swing is in that direction. Even if this amendment is defeated another is soon to be addressed in the senate. We need to send a message now and we need to send it in a loud voice, that we do not want or representatives to vote against us. Ending affirmative action is a move against education.