A forum debating Proposal 2 (the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative) that banned affirmative action programs in the state of Michigan. The panel featured two notable proponents of the initiativeWard Connerly, the California businessman who is funding the effort to eliminate affirmative action in Michigan as he did with California's Proposition 209, and Jennifer Gratz, current Executive Director of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) and the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit that successfully struck down the University of Michigan's point system for undergraduate admissions. Sister Monica Kostielney of the Michigan Catholic Conference and Bruce Courtade, the head of the Grand Rapids Bar Association, represented the opposing view. During the wide-ranging discussion, the panel debated the use of race in university admissions, strategies to confront the ongoing racism in society, the record of Ward Connerly's Proposition 209 in California, and the ways in which society benefits from diversity.
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