Rejected
student jumps for joy Rejected
student jumps for joy
By Jodi S. Cohen / The Detroit News
PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP -- Barbara Grutter did not jump up and down alone when she heard a judge had ruled the University of Michigan Law School's admissions policy illegal.
Her two sons jumped with her. "We didn't stay on the floor," she said. "I have always said ... that discrimination is wrong and that the law provides protections," said Grutter, 47, who home schools her sons, ages 15 and 12. "I can say that the law did provide protection."
Grutter, a white applicant rejected by the Law School in 1997, filed suit claiming that less qualified minorities were chosen ahead of her. After the judge agreed, she spent Tuesday dodging media calls and TV trucks, then went about her daily routine.
"It has been so long ... and I have an emotional reaction today. I have no intellectual reaction. In some ways, it feels like closure to me." She still hopes to attend the Law School, but needs to "step back and think about what's next." She hopes the judge will not delay his order from going into effect.
"The less discrimination that occurs, the better," she said. "I don't know how anybody can argue with that."
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