The College Admissions Scam Opens a New Front in the Affirmative Action Debate

Why take a spot away from a more deserving student? Those phrases are part of the rhetorical toolkit opponents of affirmative action have long used to attack the policy. But defenders of using racial preferences in college admissions now have a new response to complaints that undeserving black and brown students are getting help: What about the college cheating scandal? Read the story at CNN and then come back and take the poll.