Monday, September 18, 2000
Lawsuit against Michigan postponed
U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Duggan granted a motion to postpone the proceedings of the lawsuit brought against the University of Michigan for the use of race as a determining factor in admissions to the College of Literature, Sciences and the Arts.
Due to the illness of one of the university’s attorneys, oral arguments for summary judgment, originally scheduled for Sept. 18 in Detroit, have been rescheduled for Nov. 21. If a summary judgment is not reached, pre-trial hearings will begin sometime after Nov. 21.
The university’s law school also is currently facing a similar admissions lawsuit, which will go to trial Jan. 15. Both suits challenging the university’s admissions policies were filed by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Individual Rights.

Medical school applications fall
The total number of applications to the 125 medical schools in the United States dropped 6 percent in 1999, according to a survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
This was the third consecutive year that medical schools experienced a decline in the number of applications. Medical schools received 38,529 applications, down from 41,004 last year. Applications from members of minority groups fell nearly 7 percent, while male and female applications fell 9 percent and 2 percent, respectively.
----Sharon Coar
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