Anti-Climacus

A ROUSING DEFENSE OF MY SCHOOL (OR SOMETHING): Democritus at Tacitus can't understand how it is that minority applications might drop off after the Affirmative Action rulings by SCOTUS. Obviously, they're not very familiar with important primary effects (such as the number of people who have imperfect information about the rulings and changes to U of M's admissions policy, and may be making the decision not to apply based on their incorrect understanding), nor very familiar with secondary effects (like negative press as a result of the rulings (either claiming the University had gone too far in supporting AA or arguing that by changing their standards, they were selling out minorities) which would lead potential applicants to have a more negative definition of the University than the would otherwise).

Then again, there's this possible explanation for Democritus' criticism, which comes out in the comments:

"You always struck me as a Spartan, democritus. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Gee, what made you notice? :)

I went to Michigan State as an undergrad. Road-tripped to Ann Arbor numerous times (they had better Chinese takeout). Still can't stop laughing at the fact that most of U of M's student population is from New Jersey."

Clearly this is a perfect example of MSU trying to take it out of U of M. Perfidious!