Back to Madison!

Roger CleggRacial Preferences

The Center for Equal Opportunity went back to Madison, Wisconsin, this week! Our studies  revealing the heavy weight given to race and ethnicity in undergrad and law school admissions at the University of Wisconsin prompted a hearing at the state legislature. The chairman of the relevant committee is no friend of this kind of discrimination, and we were asked to testify. The hearings went very well, and you can read my testimony on ceo’s website at www.ceousa.org . As you know, our earlier visit to Wisconsin  last month was a great success. With the protestors, politically correct university officials, and all the media …

Wisconsin Press Release

CEO StaffUncategorized

On Monday, October 17, CEO president Roger Clegg testified before the Wisconsin state assembly’s higher education committee on racial and ethnic admissions discrimination at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Clegg had been invited to testify because of two studies on such discrimination that had been released last month by the Center for Equal Opportunity. The studies found that African Americans and Latinos were given heavy preferences over white and Asian undergraduate and law-school applicants. DOWNLOAD HERE Related posts: Roger Clegg testifies regarding H.R. 40 TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. COMMISSION …

A Colorblind America

Linda ChavezRacial Preferences

Could anyone have imagined even a few years ago that the 2012 U.S. presidential race might end up as a contest between two black candidates? I certainly couldn’t have. Yet, with Republican candidate Herman Cain’s recent surge in popularity, the possibility is there. This says a great deal about race in America — all of it good. Related posts: Arizona Bids Adios to Illegal Immigrant Basher Suggested Reading on Civil Rights Issues Did Juan Williams libel LU’s Hans Bader? Drop in Illegal Immigration Opens Door for Real Reform

Affirmative action and football

Roger CleggRacial Preferences

When I’m debating the issue—as I frequently do—I often hear the following analogy used as a justification for affirmative action: Suppose that there were a game between two football teams, and during the first half one of the teams enjoyed all kinds of unfair advantages—its players were allowed to cheat in various ways, the referees made all kinds of unfair calls, and so forth. As a result, that team ran up a big lead. Then, after halftime, it was announced that from now on there would be no more cheating and bias—but the score was left unchanged and the opposing …

Steve Jobs — a Relentless Visionary

Linda ChavezUncategorized

Like millions of Apple users around the world, I learned that Steve Jobs had died when I turned on my Mac on Wednesday evening. There his picture was, staring out from the Apple homepage when I went to my browser: his signature black turtleneck; his close-cropped grey hair and beard; his piercing, pale eyes. I felt enormous sadness — the kind that makes your throat constrict to force back tears, and at first, I couldn’t quite figure out why. I certainly didn’t know Jobs. I couldn’t even have told you whether he had a family or how old he was …

Voting Rights and Wrongs

Roger CleggVoting Rights

Last week, federal district court judge John Bates issued a decision in Shelby County v. Holder upholding the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires some jurisdictions (mostly but not exclusively in the South) to get permission from the federal government before making any change, no matter how trivial, in practices and procedures related to voting. This was disappointing but not surprising.  It would take a very brave federal judge to stick to rule-of-law principles and find Section 5 unconstitutional. Such action would bring a torrent of hysterical wrath from the media and the professional grievance …

Standardized Testing Under Attack … Again

Linda ChavezRacial Preferences

As predictably as fall marks the beginning of the new school year in campuses across the country, so, too, does it usher in new attacks on standardized testing. The 2011 version comes in the form of a new book, “SAT Wars,” a collection of essays that purports to be an authoritative account of the controversy over one particular test used by most selective universities in their admissions process. But far from being an unbiased account of the pros and cons of using any standardized test — much less the SAT, one of the most thoroughly studied, modified, and continuously validated …

Here’s Linda Chavez on The O’Reilly Factor

Roger CleggRacial Preferences

In case you missed it, here’s  Center for Equal Opportunity chairman Linda Chavez on The O’Reilly Factor last Friday, talking about the studies that the CEO released last week in Madison, Wisconsin, that revealed severe racial preferences in state university undergrad and law school admissions there—and talking about the thuggish reception we received in Madison. Related posts: BAMN! The Center for Equal Opportunity Zaps Racial Preferences Colorblind Law Politicized external review panels as unguided “diversity” missiles: California university administrators remain ultra-slow learners Does Equal Protection Violate the Equal Protection Clause?

Racial Preferences in Wisconsin

Linda ChavezEducation

The campus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison erupted this week after the release of two studies documenting the heavy use of race in deciding which students to admit to the undergraduate and law schools. The evidence of discrimination is undeniable, and the reaction by critics was undeniably dishonest and thuggish. Related posts: New Studies Show Severe Racial Discrimination at University of Wisconsin New CEO Report: If California Restores Race Discrimination: Implications for Higher Education Madison Mob Madness Standardized Testing Under Attack … Again

Madison Mob Madness

Roger CleggRacial Preferences

This has been an exciting week for the Center for Equal Opportunity—and for the cause of true, colorblind equal opportunity. On Tuesday at a press conference in Madison, Wisconsin, we released two studies that revealed severe discrimination based on race and ethnicity in undergraduate and law school admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with African Americans and Latinos being given huge preferences over whites and Asians. Related posts: Racial Preferences in Wisconsin Back to Madison! TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT …