``The sad reality is, there's no easy way to achieve racial equality without focusing on race.''
The University of Colorado does not award ``points'' toward admission for underrepresented groups. But officials do consider race and gender as factors when they have more applicants who meet academic criteria than they have room for.
CU law professor Melissa Hartis working to defeat the amendment. She said she's struggling to fight a misperception that the university uses quotas or accepts students of color who shouldn't be there.
``Some mornings, I wake up and think, 'It's a hard battle.' Some days I wake up and think, 'Most people in Colorado do not want this,''' Hart said. ``So I don't know. I think it could go either way.''
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