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  The U.S. Supreme Court says the University of Texas can consider race when deciding which students to admit. The case was one of the most closely watched because it deals with the issue of affirmative action.

  Affirmative action is a policy designed to help those who suffer from discrimination, especially regarding employment or education.

  The decision has nationwide implications because other American universities use similar affirmative action policies. However, eight U.S. states do not allow race to be used when considering public college admissions. The states are Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Washington.

  By law, the University of Texas guarantees admission to students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class. But when considering applications from about 25 percent of students, the University of Texas also considers the student’s race, along with other factors.

  The 4-3 Supreme Court decision means the university’s admissions policy can remain.

  Abigail Fisher, a white woman, filed the case against the University of Texas. She said the school denied her admission based on her race.

  Fisher’s grades were not good enough to get her automatic admission under the top 10 percent rule. She was denied admission to the University of Texas in 2008.

  When she found out that minority students with lower grades than hers were accepted, she sued the school for discrimination. The University of Texas said Fisher would not have been admitted with or without race as a factor.

  The university says its race-based selection policies are necessary to maintain adiverse campus community. Fisher’s attorneys argued that the top 10 percent program is enough to make sure that adequate minority students are included in the admissions process.

  Justice Anthony Kennedy gave the majority opinion for the court. “The university has thus met its burden of showing that the admissions policy it used... was narrowlytailored,” he wrote.

  Kennedy also said that “it remains an enduring challenge to our nation's education system to reconcile the pursuit of diversity with the constitutional promise of equal treatment and dignity.”

  Three other judges - Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas – disagreed.

  Alito said he thought the decision was an example of “affirmative action goneberserk.” He said he felt the university had relied "on a series of unsupported andnoxious racial assumptions."

  In a separate dissent, Thomas expressed his view that the U.S. Constitution makes it illegal to use race as part of the admissions process in higher education.

  U.S. President Barack Obama praised the Supreme Court’s decision for upholding “the basic notion that diversity is an important value in our society, and that this country should provide a high quality education to all our young people, regardless of their background.”

  I’m Bryan Lynn.

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  Words in This Story

  factor – n. something that produces or influences a certain result

  automatic – adj. happening by itself with little human involvement

  diverse – adj. showing a lot of differences and variety

  adequate – adj. acceptable in quality or quantity

  tailor – v. adapt for a particular purpose or person

  reconcile – v. restore friendly relations

  dissent – n. the expression of opinions different from others

  berserk – adj. out of control with anger or excitement

  noxious – adj. harmful or unpleasant

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