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Several Public, Private Universities End Affirmative Action Programs.

By Bryan A. Keogh, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 7--WASHINGTON--Several public and private universities, including Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have announced they will eliminate or alter summer programs and scholarships that accept only minorities.

The schools' decisions follow a campaign by two anti-affirmative action groups that wrote letters to the universities, threatening to file complaints against them with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights if the programs were n

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