He agrees with Luney that, in general, black schools have little to be concerned about beyond the current legal assault on affirmative action. "No one is excluded from historically Black Institutions. I would not anticipate any impact on black schools. The law prohibits institutions from being single race," he said. If someone white applies to a black school, race can't be an issue. Said Shaw: "It's against the law to exclude the individual based on race regardless if it's a white institution or black institution." At the same time schools can be majority Black, he noted.
Morehouse College administrators weren't concerned. Morehouse has Spelman next door, said John Baker Brown, vice president for college relations. "There is no isolation for either school, plus several other co-educational schools that afford students choices without limitations," Brown said.
"Morehouse, like Spelman, is a private institution which I assume puts it in a different category from VMI." Both schools are part of the Atlanta University Center, which is the largest consortium of historically Black schools.
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