On February 27th the GMU chapter co-hosted, with the GMU Federalist Society, a panel discussion on Affirmative Action in schools. Angela Ciccolo, Interim General Counsel at the NAACP and Paul Beard, from the Pacific Legal Foundation, spoke. Richard Fields, GMU’s dean of diversity, moderated the discussion. The talk focused on the recent Seattle and Louisville Supreme Court decisions. Each speaker gave a brief overview of equal protection law in that area, then they discusses the fractured decision in the Seattle and Louisville cases and then we opened up the floor to a group discussion on the future of using race based assignments in the schools. We had about thirty students attend the event.