Stacey, a 14-year-old girl from Corpus Christi, Texas, was denied the chance to attend the "Planet Earth" environmental summer camp, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and administered by Texas A&M University, because she had the wrong skin color.

The camp's project summary states: "Future environmental scientists ... must come from all the racial and ethnic groups present in our society... We must find a way to encourage all of today's ninth grade students to become practitioners and defenders of the environment of Planet Earth."

However, Stacey was advised during an admission interview that white kids are ineligible to attend. A Planet Earth administrator stated in a letter, "It is my understanding that [Stacey] is Anglo-American and therefore does not meet the stated criteria for participation in Planet Earth."

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