I was disappointed to see this story in today’s Chronicle online, about how Wisconsin legislators voted against drafting a constitutional amendment that would have banned affirmative action.

This past fall, just as the voters of Michigan rejected racial preferences, the leaders of U-W made a step in the opposite direction, ordering its admissions officers to consider race and ethnicity in their admissions decisions. The amendment by Wisconsin legislators could have been an opportunity to right that wrong. But alas, it seems as though Wisconsin needs to be added to the queue of states whose discriminatory policies will have to be rectified by the voters.