sandra: awaiting a press conference for students for fair admission who brought on this case after we heard from the president there just a short time ago. so that presser in washington will be underway any moment. we ll get there when it begins. the group brought two separate cases against the university of north carolina and harvard to the nation s highest court and asian-american student claims he was rejected from six elite universities by race. reaction out of it. thank you for coming. let me introduce participants of this press conference. on my far right is calvin yang, calvin is a participating member of students for fair admissions. he was rejected from harvard a few years ago. to my right is thomas mccarthy, typical spelling, thomas mccarthy. tom is the founding partner of a law firm consevoir and mccarthy, and chief trial counsel and students for fair admissions versus the university of north carolina. to my left is adam mortara. adam is with mortara law, forme
initiate litigation should universities defiantly flout this clear ruling and the dictates of title 6 and the equal protection clause. and finally, this organization is deeply grateful to the lawyers who have pursued this litigation with such skill and commitment. and finally, we are grateful to the dozens of young courageous men and women who joined ssfa as high school seniors after they were rejected from harvard and the university of north carolina. their dedication to the principles of equality is inspirational. thank you. calvin. good afternoon, ladies and
legal covenant that binds together our multi-racial, multi-ethnic nation. the polarizing stigmatizing and unfair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a student s race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. these discriminatory admissions practices undermined the integrity of our civil rights laws. ending racial preferences in college admissions is an outcome that the vast majority of all americans, of all races, will celebrate. a university doesn t have real diversity when it simply assembles students who look different but come from similar
if it really were, the most important thing to them, they would have done this already because it s very clear statistically if you eliminate legacy admissions or admissions to students of big donors you are going to get more diversity. so what they are saying is we are willing to sacrifice some things to achieve that diversity and what they are sacrificing is giving a fair shake to particularly asian students who apply, but not willing to sacrifice maybe not giving a bonus bump to students of parents who went here, big donors here. that is pretty hypothetical. so, i hope that universities are going to look at things like eliminating legacy emissions that would provide a more even playing field all the way across the board while achieving the goal of getting diversity. i think not just racial diversity, but diversity across a whole lot of different metrics. sandra: getting an update here as the president is making his way to new york city, shortly landing here and will head to midtow
like this for at least ten years. because it is the ethos of america. he used the word fairness 2 or 3 times in the press conference. how is it fair to bar students who have worked their ass off to get the best grades out there, sacrifice so many things and no you don t get it because your family had money, the best news for black american, it can be, it can be, because maybe now we will demand strong education for our kids beginning in kindergarten so this kind of thing becomes a moot point. sandra: thanks for charles to his reaction on that. and also reaction to this. it appears to be harvard saying we ll find loopholes to the supreme court decision. in their statement following the supreme court ruling, they say this, first paragraph, the court also ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions