Affirmative Action

            Affirmative action has been has been quite a hot topic in the past few years all across the nation, from the local work place all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The two sides of this topic are quite strong; each side thinks that there way is the only way. There is not much in-between on affirmative action, either people believe that race should be taken into affect when applying for a job, or people think it should not be taken into consideration. The bigger problem is that this topic has a lot of grey area. It dwells into racism which also has been a large problem in the United States ever since its creation, and is a whole different topic. Nevertheless, affirmative action laws defeat the purpose of eliminating racism in the United States by just taking race into consideration more often.
             Affirmative action spiders out into many different areas of everyday life for people. One such area that it spiders into is admission into schools, more specifically colleges. In the University of Michigan they implied a way to decide who to accept into their University, called the point system. The point system was just a form with different questions and the person who would look over the application would mark in the bubble that corresponds to the information on application, and when the applicant received a certain amount of points, they would be accepted. One of the questions on the application had to do with race, and it would reward an applicant of a minority race, and penalize an applicant that is Caucasian. This of course upset many Caucasian applicants that were rejected to people of a different race who were not as qualified in other areas as them. Two Caucasian women were at the center of the University of Michigan cases. Jennifer Gratz was a top high school student in suburban Detroit in 1995, when Michigan rejected her application. Barbara Grutter, a 49-year-old mother of two, ran her own consulting business.