Group Says Nebraska College Biased Against Whites: A group supporting a Nov. 4 ballot measure to end affirmative action says the University of Nebraska College of Law discriminates against White students, but school officials say they never released data that could produce that finding.
The Virginia-based Center for Equal Opportunity released a study on Wednesday. The group says the study shows that minorities, namely Blacks and Hispanics, have been admitted to the college with lower test scores than Whites who were not admitted.
The ballot measure would prohibit state and local governments from giving preferential treatment to people on the basis of race, sex, ethnicity or national origin.
Law school Dean Steven Willborn questioned the statistics that were the basis of the group's findings. He said the college did not provide the group with information that showed the race and ethnicity of students.
...Willborn said the center reached broad conclusions based on a small number of students. According to statistics provided by the group, 14 of 41 Black students who applied to the law college were admitted to the college last year, although not all of them enrolled.
By comparison, 273 of 729 White applicants were admitted.
``They're talking about something like 14 or 15 African-Americans admitted to the law school, and that's why they want to change the constitution?'' to prohibit affirmative action, Willborn said.
