Let's take a hot topic for our last DT in Unit 3---affirmative action. Your textbook covers briefly Bakke, Adarand, and Hopwood, among others. Some would offer that affirmative action has outlived its usefulness that it is no longer needed and should be judicially or legislatively set aside. What is affirmative action? Is it "dead"? Or, is there still a need for affirmative action in the 21 Century?