Defendant university used a special admission program with a racial classification intended to assist minorities, which barred plaintiff applicant, a white male, because of his race. The court held that the program violated U.S. Const. amend. XIV because the purpose of the racial classification did not serve a compelling state interest and rigid scrutiny showed that there were other reasonable ways to achieve the state's goals by means imposing a lesser limitation on the rights of the group disadvantaged by the classification. Defendant did not meet its burdens to establish that a program that discriminated against white applicants because of their race was necessary to achieve an integrated student body and improved medical care for minorities, and to demonstrate that those goals could not be achieved by means less detrimental to the rights of the majority. Because plaintiff demonstrated that defendant had unconstitutionally discriminated against him, the burden should have shifted to defendant to prove that the special admission program did not result in his exclusion, which defendant conceded it could not do. Plaintiff, therefore, was entitled to an order that he be admitted.