According to some students at this school, there won’t be enough diversity without Affirmative Action.

USA Today reports.

At Texas’ flagship university, many fear for diversity

Garrett Maples came to the University of Texas from an almost all-white high school north of here in Liberty Hill.

Xavier Rotnofsky arrived from the Mexico border city of Laredo, which is 95% Hispanic.

Danielle Smith traveled west from Houston, along with a healthy number of fellow African-American students.

Each has thrived at Texas’ flagship university, where much of the learning process occurs through osmosis. Maples found an ethnic mix in the Texas Blazers service group. Rotnofsky got elected student body president on a lark, along with his Indian-born running mate, Rohit Mandalapu. Smith assimilated by way of the Black Student Alliance, where she directs public relations.

“Because we have a diverse student body, people can really learn from each other,” 21-year-old Rotnofsky says. While the university must step up recruitment of African Americans, who represent just 4% of the student population, he says, a diversity of voices helped lead to the recent removal of Confederate president Jefferson Davis’ statue from the prominent South Mall position it had occupied since 1933.

Today, however, all three students worry that the ethnic and racial mix UT-Austin has achieved in fits and starts will be jeopardized by the latest challenge to its affirmative action policies. Next week, the Supreme Court will hear the case for the second time in three years.