Given the existence of non-selective universities, the question of whether to
employ racial preferences in college admissions reduces to one of optimal allocation of a finite resource: students who
Surely the transition from the Fullilove plurality view (in which Justice Powell joined) to today's strict scrutiny (which will presumably be applied as Justice Powell
employed it) does not signal a change in the standard by which the burden of a remedial
racial preference is to be judged as reasonable or not at any given time.