The University of Texas at Austin Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court defending its use of in admissions.
An applicant to UT because she says in 2008 because she鈥檚 white.
The race is just one of many factors considered in admissions and that its use is necessary and constitutional.
UT-Austin President Bill Powers discussing the case. In it, he says officials are 鈥渃onfident the university will prevail.鈥漈he Supreme Court is on October 10.
The the use of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger that the University of Michigan Law School's use of affirmative action was constitutional.
