Meanwhile, the Supreme Court also ruled to uphold a race-conscious affirmative action program at the University of Texas. The petitioner, Abigail Fisher, has accused the University of Texas at Austin of discrimination for rejecting her college application, she says, because she is white. But in a 4-3 ruling, the court upheld the constitutionality of taking race and ethnicity into account. Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe said, “No decision since Brown v. Board of Education has been as important as Fisher will prove to be in the long history of racial inclusion and educational diversity.”