Bush condemns U-M's affirmative action policy

Some MSU officials are fuming after hearing of President Bush's opposition to the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy.

According to senior Bush administration officials Wednesday, the president plans on labeling the policy unconstitutional.

White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said the president plans on pinpointing other ways to promote diversity that do not include quotas.

"Bush's response to Michigan's affirmative action policy represents a typical republican response," Rodney Patterson, director of the MSU office of racial ethnic student affairs said.

"The people who created the lawsuit were strategic and intentional, and purposely wanted to dismantle the works of affirmative action."

U-M, which faces a lawsuit from three white students, offers minority students extra consideration in admissions for their undergraduate and law school programs.

Staff and Wire Reports

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