Is it the purpose of Higher Education to take a body of people that is representative of the racial and ethnic diversity of the country's population as a whole and provide them education beyond the miniumum high school level, or is it to take the best students from the high school pool and further educate them so they can add to society's overall body of knowledge and experience?
For that matter, in the context of higher education, what does "best student" mean? Smartest? Most able to absorb knowledge and parrot it back?
I don't disagree with this decision in the least, as I have long thought that racial discrimination in any form adds to society's overall racial tensions, but it seems to me we don't really know why we send people to colleges and universities anymore. Without knowing society's goal in funding and supporting higher education, how can we pretend to have a coherent admissions policy?