The Left’s racial fanaticism seems to be a hard drug to kick.

Months after the Supreme Court struck down the use of race-based admissions as discriminatory, universities across the country are looking for ways to avoid complying with the decision or, at the very least, its intent.

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One of the loopholes comes from Chief Justice John Roberts’s majority opinion, in which he clarified that college admissions officers were not prohibited from "considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise."

Both of the universities involved in the case, Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, have already seized on this statement to continue their racial preferences, albeit in a more subtle way. Harvard, for example, released its new set of admissions essay prompts for the 2024 school year, and the very first prompt asks, “Harvard has long recognized the importance of enrolling a diverse student body. How will the life experiences that shape who you are today enable you to contribute to Harvard?”

UNC announced it would likewise encourage applicants to discuss their race directly: “[The university will] comply with the Court’s ruling that an applicant’s lived racial experience cannot be credited as 'race for race’s sake,' but instead under some circumstances may illuminate an individual’s character and contributions."

Some schools have been much more direct about their intentions to flout the court’s decision. At a legal conference in July, several top law school administrators encouraged university officials to continue factoring race into the admissions process but avoid keeping documented records of it.

"You should be aware right now of the record you're creating," University of Michigan general counsel Timothy Lynch told the conference, which was hosted by the Association of American Law Schools, according to the Washington Free Beacon. "What are your faculty saying in emails? What are they saying in public?"

The key is to maintain plausible deniability, Lynch continued: “What can you say right now is the race-neutral explanation for doing it, and how do you avoid having your faculty colleagues muddy the record?"

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the elite academic institutions from which the Left’s theories about race originated remain staunchly committed to them. But it should give pause to families and students considering higher education that the universities to which one must pledge tens of thousands of dollars and years of academic formation remain hellbent on defying the law. These are not schools with the best interests of their students at heart. Indeed, their only interests are advancing leftist ideology — and taking your money.