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Get the Most Out of Your Summer!

You might be tempted to view the summer as a time to unwind from the stress of the school year and catch your breath long enough to get ready for the new stresses of the next school year.

While taking some time for repose might not seem like such a bad idea, you?ve still got your post-graduation future to think about. Grad schools, jobs, research positions, fellowships, and the like, will all want to know how you have spent your time in undergrad. Your summer experience is not off limits from this inquiry and in fact, may even be more important than your extracurricular activities during the school year.

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Scholar Corner

Scholar Corner: Here We Go Again...

By Ismail Muhammad

Last week, a case that's been winding its way through the courts for some time finally reached the Supreme Court - and it stands to decide the future of affirmative action. Fisher v. University of Texas pits a white college student, Abigail Fisher, against the University of Texas, with the University's policy of considering race in admissions hanging in the balance. Just like a previous Supreme Court case, Grutter V. Bollinger (2003), this case concerns a school's right to weigh race in admissions decisions. The last case crippled points-based systems used explicitly to increase minority enrollment, but permitted public schools to consider race in more holistic (and purposely vague) fashion. That decision was an understandable and fair compromise that balanced the rights of white American students with the needs of disadvantaged minority applicants, allowing race to be considered alongside other key factors in college admission.

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