A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld a university law school admissions policy that gives minorities an edge, but the justices overturned a second policy that relied on a point system to determine which undergraduates are admitted.

* There is nothing in the news article which indicates when the decision would go into effect for the college admissions process. I think this decision is especially critical in California due to the massive state budget shortfall where all public services (education, health, community) services have been cut back.

Excerpt from -Full Story- ""In 1978, .....[Justice] Stevens suggested that blacks would not need preferences much longer. But Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice in the court’s history, disagreed, saying preferences would be needed for another hundred years. “This remark

left Powell speechless,” according to Jeffries. He “recoiled from the prospect of generation upon generation of racial quotas.”

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