FIRE reports a victory for equal treatment under the law:

Marshall University has taken FIRE’s advice and removed racial restrictions from University Studies 101 (UNI 101), a course introducing first-year students to life at Marshall. The descriptions for several sections of last fall’s UNI 101 limited enrollment to “African American Students only.” In November FIRE wrote to Marshall explaining that racially segregated courses are both illegal and morally misguided. In response to FIRE’s objections, the course this coming fall will focus on “African American Issues,” and will not exclude any interested student because of his or her race.

Of course, there’s still the problem of offering a course covering “issues” that are supposedly unique to a certain racial group…