AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: PUBLIC OPINION VS. POLICY When Justin Ketcham, a white college student from the suburbs, thinks about affirmative action, he thinks about what happened when he sent out letters seeking scholarships so he could attend Stanford University after being accepted during his senior year of high school.The organizations that wrote back told him their money was reserved for women or minorities. To Americans like Ketcham, it’s a matter of fairness. The average …showed first 75 words of 2746 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2746 total…black teacher, which was never an issue in this case; the grounds it came up with were "diversity."Nor does affirmative action lack for broad backing among predominactly white institutions. The business community has regularly spoken against anti-quota legislations in the past, and is distinctly unenthusiastic about anti-preference proposals today, including CCRI (Czurak 1). Officials at prestigous unversiies regard their racially balanced student boddies as a major achievement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: PUBLIC OPINION VS. POLICY