Diverse Issues in Higher Education, September 18, by Maria Ledesma
http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_11696.shtml
“Affirmative action may not be a perfect policy, but an open and honest dialogue about the policy’s future would be an important and welcome exercise. However, such a dialogue must be framed within a contextual historic backdrop. We must avoid being swayed by … arguments that have come to condemn affirmative action as simply a ‘preference’ for the ‘unmeritorious.'”