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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/A3.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='US High Court Reviews Race Consideration in College Admission' data-article-id='6275'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='14104'>The United States Supreme Court again is hearing arguments about race-based considerations in university admissions policies.</span> <span data-start-time='14104' data-end-time='28667'>The cases concern such policies at the University of North Carolina (UNC), a public school, and Harvard, the nation’s oldest private university.</span> <span data-start-time='28667' data-end-time='41188'>The nation’s highest court agreed to hear the legal actions after lower courts ruled in favor of both UNC and Harvard. </span> <span data-start-time='41188' data-end-time='49625'>The lower courts ruled that both schools followed past Supreme Court rulings, called precedents. </span> <span data-start-time='49625' data-end-time='58146'>It rejected accusations of discrimination against white and Asian-American students.</span> <span data-start-time='58146' data-end-time='73958'>In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that the University of Michigan’s law school could consider race in its admissions process to create “a diverse educational environment." </span> <span data-start-time='73958' data-end-time='88958'>In 2016, the court ruled that the constitution does not bar consideration of race in a case about admission at the University of Texas at Austin.</span> <span data-start-time='88958' data-end-time='100063'>The group Students for Fair Admissions, or SFFA, brought the legal actions against UNC and Harvard. </span> <span data-start-time='100063' data-end-time='106104'>The group’s founder, Edward Blum, is a conservative activist. </span> <span data-start-time='106104' data-end-time='116208'>He brought similar legal action against the University of Texas and also organized against the Voting Rights Act.</span> <span data-start-time='116208' data-end-time='132021'>The SFFA argued that the Constitution bars the use of race in college admissions and called for overturning earlier Supreme Court decisions that disagreed. </span> <span data-start-time='132021' data-end-time='142229'>Colleges and universities can use other, race-neutral ways to build a diverse student body, it said.</span> <span data-start-time='142229' data-end-time='150396'>The group offered the possibility of considering a student’s socioeconomic position, for example. </span> <span data-start-time='150396' data-end-time='159375'>It also said the schools should stop favoring applicants whose parents are former students.</span> <span data-start-time='159375' data-end-time='166375'>During the hearings, the justices appeared to take different sides in the dispute.</span> <span data-start-time='166375' data-end-time='174542'>Justice Clarence Thomas, who has a record of opposition to race consideration, said, “I’ve heard the word ‘diversity’ quite a few times and I don’t have a clue what it means.” </span> <span data-start-time='174542' data-end-time='181917'>Justice Samuel Alito compared race consideration to giving minorities a starting point closer to the finish line.</span> <span data-start-time='181917' data-end-time='192938'>Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is the court’s newest justice and its first Black female member.</span> <span data-start-time='192938' data-end-time='202083'>She said UNC’s admission programs are “looking at the full person with all of those characteristics.” </span> <span data-start-time='202083' data-end-time='231917'>And Justice Elena Kagan called universities the “pipelines to leadership in our society” and suggested that without race consideration, fewer minority students could attend these colleges.</span> <span data-start-time='231917' data-end-time='239021'>Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar represents the Biden administration. </span> <span data-start-time='239021' data-end-time='246021'>She said the schools’ admission policies support national security interest.</span> <span data-start-time='246021' data-end-time='254104'>Prelogar said, a diverse group of military officers is critical to national security. </span> <span data-start-time='254104' data-end-time='265292'>She said that requires race-based considerations in admissions, “including at the nation’s service academies.”</span> <span data-start-time='265292' data-end-time='271417'>A decision in today’s hearing is not expected before late spring.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/A3.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=18995 data-hint-location='202083' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/which_of_the_following_is_a_definition_of_the_word_society.wav'>Which of the following is a definition of the word society?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='people in a particular country, area, time'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/people_in_a_particular_country_area_time.wav'><span>people in a particular country, area, time</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/the_practice_of_restraining_oneself_from_indulging_in_something_typically_alcohol.wav'><span>the practice of restraining oneself from indulging in something, typically alcohol</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/the_endurance_of_pain_or_hardship_without_the_display_of_feelings_and_without_complaint.wav'><span>the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/defeated_or_conquered.wav'><span>defeated or conquered</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=18996 data-hint-location='166375' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/what_term_did_justice_clarence_thomas_have_trouble_understanding.wav'>What term did Justice Clarence Thomas have trouble understanding?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='diversity'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/diversity.wav'><span>diversity</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/thirst.wav'><span>thirst</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/drivers.wav'><span>drivers</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/adversity.wav'><span>adversity</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=18997 data-hint-location='265292' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/a_decision_in_todays_hearing_is_not_expected_before_late__blank_.wav'>A decision in todays hearing is not expected before late <span class='blank'>spring</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='spring'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/spring.wav'><span>spring</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/string.wav'><span>string</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/sting.wav'><span>sting</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5704/sling.wav'><span>sling</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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