Administration Asks Court To Overturn Ban on Race-Based Aid

By Mark Pitsch

Washington

The Clinton Administration has joined the University of Maryland in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that the institution's scholarship program for black students is unconstitutional.

In a brief filed last week, Solicitor General Drew S. Days 3rd argued that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond used the wrong Constitutional standard when it ruled against the university's...