We are the Joneses - The Official Texas Longhorns Athletics Thread

[dtownreppin214]

not so fast my friend..

 

[...o3]

 

[satam55]

In a major victory for affirmative action, a divided Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the University of Texas admissions program that takes account of race.

The justices voted in favor of the Texas program by a 4-3 vote, an outcome that was dramatically altered by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, who opposed affirmative action.

The university considers race among many factors in admitting the last quarter of incoming freshmen classes. Texas fills most of the freshman class by guaranteeing admission to students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their Texas high school class.

Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his majority opinion that the Texas plan complied with earlier court rulings allowing colleges to take account of race in pursuit of diversity on campus. "The university has thus met its burden of showing that the admissions policy it used ... was narrowly tailored," Kennedy wrote.

The court's three more conservative justices dissented, and Justice Samuel Alito read portions of his dissent from the bench.

In a separate dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas repeated his view that the Constitution outlaws any use of race in higher education admissions.

Just seven justices participated in the decision since Scalia's death in February. Justice Elena Kagan sat out the case because she worked on it while serving in the Justice Department.

The high court ruled in the case of Abigail Fisher, a white Texan who was denied admission to the university's flagship campus in Austin in 2008. Fisher claimed she was rejected while African-American applicants with lower grades and test scores were admitted. The school said Fisher, who did not graduate in the top 10 percent of her high school class, would not have been admitted with or without race as a factor. But officials did conditionally offer to allow her to transfer in as a sophomore if she maintained a 3.2 grade point average at another public college in Texas.

Instead, Fisher went to Louisiana State University, from which she graduated in 2012, and pursued her lawsuit. Fisher was recruited for the suit by Edward Blum, an opponent of racial preferences who has been remarkably successful in persuading the Supreme Court to hear cases challenging the use of race in education and politics. Blum was behind a major challenge to the landmark Voting Rights Act that resulted in the court eviscerating a key provision of the law and he also led an unsuccessful challenge to states' widespread practice of counting all their residents, not just those eligible to vote, in drawing legislative districts.

Justices heard Fisher's case once before, and issued an inconclusive ruling in 2013 that sent her case back to a lower court and set the stage for Monday's decision.

In 2003, the justices reaffirmed the consideration of race in the quest for diversity on campus. Their decision then set a goal of doing away with such programs in 25 years.

Texas is unique in marrying the top 10 plan to a separate admissions review in which race is one of many factors considered. The university's current freshman class is 22 percent Hispanic and 4.5 percent African-American. White students make up less than half the school's freshmen.

Eight states prohibit the use of race in public college admissions: Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Washington.

The Supreme Court today voted to uphold a component of the University of Texas’ admissions policy that takes race into account.

In a 5-3 vote, the justices upheld the judgment of the court of appeals, which ruled in favor of the state’s considering race in its admissions process.

This case is the second trip to the Supreme Court for Abigail Fisher, a white woman who was denied admission to the University of Texas and then filed a lawsuit challenging the university’s consideration of race in admissions.

In Fisher I, the Supreme Court ruled that the lower courts were too deferential to school administrators, requiring the courts to look more closely at evidence rather than accept school administrators’ assurances of their good intentions when considering race. A lower court took another look and stood by its earlier decision, and the case ended up back before the justices, who heard oral arguments Dec. 9, 2015.

Texas has a unique admissions program, which first takes approximately the top 10 percent of graduating seniors from each high school in the state. To fill the remaining spots, the system examines students’ applications in what it calls a holistic analysis, considering areas such as race, community service, leadership and family circumstances.

Fisher’s attorneys argued that the implementation of the top 10 percent program is sufficient to increase minority enrollment, so there is no need to take race into account when filling the remaining spots.

Fisher attorney Bert Rein argued in December before the Supreme Court that U.T. needed to prove that the use of race in its admissions process was a “necessary last resort” in pursuing diversity, taking into account reasonably available nonracial alternatives.

On behalf of U.T., former U.S. Solicitor General Gregory Garre argued before the Supreme Court in December that the Texas holistic plan is necessary to complement its other admissions process and that it has a “meaningful impact on diversity.”

He concluded by saying, “Now is not the time, and this is not the case to roll back student diversity in America.”

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli also argued in support of U.T.

At the time of oral arguments, Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February, spawned the hashtag #StayMadAbby and was criticized when he suggested that it might not be a “good thing” for U.T. to admit as “many blacks as possible” and that perhaps black students should attend a “slower track school.”

How the fukk would this chick even know that it's specifically Blacks that got into UT over her because of Affirmative Action? Even if that was the case, How the fukk does she even know what their grades or test scores were?


@rantanamo @dtownreppin214 @houston911

 

[El Bombi]

How the fukk would this chick even know that it's specifically Blacks that got into UT over because of Affirmative Action? Even if that was the case, How the fukk does she even know what their grades or test scores were?


@rantanamo @dtownreppin214 @houston911

That stupid bytch and the people that sponsored her; really didn't do their research on U Texas racial student body demographic.

 

[Houston911]

How the fukk would this chick even know that it's specifically Blacks that got into UT over her because of Affirmative Action? Even if that was the case, How the fukk does she even know what their grades or test scores were?


@rantanamo @dtownreppin214 @houston911

She just wasn't a good student. Her grades and test scores were below average

I Went to UT for free while she sat at home depressed

We actually discussed race in class at Ut once

I said "you have 25,000 white people claiming that 1500 blacks stole their spot at UT. That math don't add up"

 

[rantanamo]

LOL, they seem to try every 15 years or so

 

[...o3]

"Texas’ 2016 class continues to grow.

Former Baylor Bears signee JP Urquidez committed to the Longhorns on Saturday in wake of Baylor releasing him from his National Letter of Intent on Thursday.

"Texas is the Flagship University and Coach (Charlie) Strong's Values align with the Urquidez family," Urquidez's father, Julian, told Horns247. "Never compromise on your core values. Proud to be part of the flagship."

Texas offered Urquidez, a four-star offensive tackle from Copperas Cove, early in the 2016 cycle but he opted to go to go with Baylor in April of 2015. However, Urquidez decided Baylor wasn’t the right program for him with the news of Art Briles’ firing and the sexual assault scandal that rocked the school.

Baylor’s loss is Texas’ gain in this case – as has been a pattern in recent weeks – and the Longhorns have added a 6-foot-6, 300-pound offensive tackle to the fold.

Rated as the No. 244 overall player nationally and the No. 37 player in the state of Texas, Urquidez joins an offensive line class that includes four-star tackles Jean Delance and Denzel Okafor."

 

[lightskin jermaine]

Our o line finally looking promising

 

[3rd Koast Kang]

Chuck the clean up man

 

[dtownreppin214]

There are ten 300lb+ signees in the '16 class

 

[...o3]

the brothers duvernay are on deck.

 

[dtownreppin214]

this team is going to be salty in 2 years.

 

[satam55]

There are ten 300lb+ signees in the '16 class

Look at this nikka Marcel Southall at the Spring Game & he's the smallest of the 5 DTs we signed in this recruiting class:

 

[Numpsay]

Just need Fowler to qualify and Hudson to announce. I wonder where our 2016 class would re-rank, I am thinking at least 5th overall.

 

[rantanamo]

Any of yall in Austin know the real scoop on what's up with Cobb?