Peter Kirsanow and I have each made this point before but, in the wake of the overwhelming passage of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, I’ll make it again: State legislatures ought to be passing statutes that require their public universities to report every year (a) whether they grant admission preferences based on race and ethnicity and, if so, (b) how the use of those preferences meets the limitations put on them by the Supreme Court. If you’re not willing to ban such preferences outright, doesn’t it at least make sense to require that such discrimination by public universities not be secret and illegal? Here’s a model bill (pdf), folks. Go out and pass it.