Michigan faces a full ballot proposal slate, ranging from a dove hunting season to mandating education funding. In between is one of the most devisive initiatives I can remember: Proposal 2. This little number is a tough one for me - the proposal seeks to ban affirmative action in the state. As a member of a diverse university community and a general believer that everyone should have equal opportunity I am very much on board. However, there's a big part of me that recalls those days in the spring of 1998 when I wasn't sure if this very same University would admit me because I was a middle class white male with above-average grades. I'm faced here with the change to retroactively cast a vote for myself or look forward and cast a vote for the community I joined six years later. I'm increasingly torn - the U is so strongly against this initiative and I support the fundamentals, but it is undeniably difficult to vote against the 17 year old mirror of me who is going to get a "Thank you for your application..." letter from Michigan. Weighing what the community should be against my personal feelings of reverse-discrimination is a battle that goes way beyond sidewalk chalkings and editorials in the Daily.