Crisis on the campus: Victor Goode explains what's at stake in the conflict over affirmative action. (Colorblind: Higher Education).

As a famous baseball player once said, "It's deja vu all over again." With the Supreme Court's decision to hear the two University of Michigan affirmative action cases (Grutter v. University of Michigan, the law school case, and Grantz v. Michigan, the undergraduate case), the issue of affirmative action that had been dormant for almost a quarter century has suddenly vaulted to the front pages again. But while the media has not focused much attention on affirmative action since its brief review of Clinton's "mend it, don't end it" policy, a well-financed and well-organized conservative movement has kept affirmative action policies of all types squarely in its sights since ...