(CNN) -- The Supreme Court has just agreed to take on the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. Abigail Fisher, a white woman, argues that she has been a victim of the university's race-conscious admission policies; the university contends that its drive for racial and ethnic diversity is educationally enriching -- a benefit to all students.

Will the ugly discourse that generally characterizes debate over racially preferential policies disappear with the wave of a magic Supreme Court wand? It seems unlikely. The issue is a cat with many more than nine lives. It arrived in the early 1970s and, despite many attacks, some of which have taken the form of amendments to state constitutions, it has survived in pretty fine fettle.

The court will have only eight justices to hear the arguments. Elena Kagan, having been involved in the case as solicitor general in the Obama administration, has bowed out of participation. Her absence, however, leaves five justices likely to express at least some degree of skepticism about the racial preferences given to non-Asian minorities in the admissions process.

Has the University of Texas been enriched by academic diversity? Maybe. But equally likely is the possibility that racial double standards reinforce stereotypes about smart whites and even smarter Asians. There are certainly wide gaps in the average SAT scores between blacks and Hispanics, on the one hand, and whites and Asians, on the other hand.

Among freshmen entering the University of Texas in 2009 who did not fall into the top 10% of their high school class (automatic admission at the university), Asians scored at the 93rd percentile of 2009 SAT takers nationwide, whites at the 89th percentile, Hispanics at the 80th percentile and blacks at the 52nd percentile. Startling? No. This picture has been well known for a long time. Heartbreaking, yes, because the numbers mean the underperforming minority students are being woefully ill served by the K-12 school system. Moreover, arriving at institutions of higher education with an academic disadvantage, they do not catch up, as it has become clear. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is the Supreme Court going to hear?
2. How many justices will hear about the case?
3. Who bowed out?
4. Who is the person in the case?
5. Is she a Hispanic?
6. What race is she?
7. Why is she going to court?
8. What does the university say about its racial and ethnic diversity?
9. Has there been many cases like this in the Supreme Court?
10. When did it first come to light?
11. What did Asians score on the SAT nationwide?
12. Was this startling?
Answer: 1. The case of Fisher v. University of Texas.
2. Eight
3. Elena Kagan
4. Abigail Fisher
5. No
6. White
7. She has been a victim of the university's race-conscious admission policies
8. That it's educationally enriching
9. Yes
10. Early 1970s
11. At the 93rd percentile
12. No

In order to save money for a trip to Thailand to visit her family and friends, Emma White, a keeper in California, worked overtime. She saved more than 900 dollars and was planning to buy a ticket, but she lost her purse with all her money and credit cards .

Emma looked through the garbage and all the buildings where she worked but came up empty-handed. She went home heartbroken. She believed that she had lost her money forever. While Emma was at home, sad and depressed, a homeless man was searching through the garbage looking for things to sell. As he was looking through a garbage bag, he found something wrapped in a plastic bag.

The homeless man, who did not want to be recognized, took the purse to Sherry Wesley, because Sherry Wesley knew him from her volunteer work at a homeless shelter. The homeless man came to Sherry Wesley with the wad of money and said, "This probably belongs to someone that you work with; can you find the owner?" Sherry Wesley works in one of the buildings that Emma cleans and she knew Emma had lost her purse.

Emma was amazed when she heard the good news. "I couldn't believe it when they called me," she said. "He has a very big heart. If someone else had found the purse, the money would be gone." As a reward, Emma gave the man 100 dollars. The homeless man gave half of the money to Sherry Wesley and asked her to donate it to charity for him. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. How much was rewarded?
2. To whom?
3. Who got 1/2?
4. What was she supposed to do with it?
5. Did she know Emma?
6. How?
7. Where was it found?
8. Was somebody going on a vacation?
9. Where?
10. Why?
11. Who was going?
12. Did she have a job?
13. What was it?
14. Where?
15. Did she work many hours?
16. Was she able to save anything?
17. what?
18. How did the man know Sherry?
19. What did he show her?
20. Did he expect recognization?
Answer:
1. 100 dollars
2. The homeless man
3. Sherry Wesley
4. donate it to charity
5. yes
6. works in building that Emma cleans
7. the garbage
8. yes
9. Thailand
10. visiting family and friends
11. Emma
12. yes
13. a keeper
14. California
15. yes
16. yes
17. 900 dollars
18. volunteer work at a homeless shelter
19. money
20. no