Message to BLSA: Black Law Students Association

August 16, 2003

Summary by Jane Thompson: The very brief address to the Black Law Students Association in August of 2003 (read to them in absentia) is quite significant because it comes two months after the U.S. Supreme Court's Michigan affirmative action decisions on race and admissions (Gratz and Grutter). David says: "If I were there in person I would lift a toast to the viability of our admissions policy that allows us to look at the whole person, including racial and ethnic background." This issue, of course, is far from settled and appears to be up for grabs again in the Supreme Court (see Fisher v. UT-Austin, on the Court's docket in Fall 2012).

Reproduced with permission of the University of Colorado Law School and the David H. Getches family.

http://hdl.handle.net/10974/getches:173