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A broken system
Writing for City Journal, Heather MacDonald has some sharp words for how the University of California has responded to Proposition 209, the 1996 bill that outlawed the use of racial and gender preferences in government and education. Noting that unlike most California agencies, the University of California has not taken Prop. 209 seriously, MacDonald argues that "through fiendishly clever compliance with the letter of the law," the UC system has ridden "roughshod over its spirit": "In doing so, university officials have revealed a fatalism about the low academic achievement of blacks and Hispanics that they would decry as rankest bigotry in a 1950s southerner."
She goes on to explain in withering detail the acrobatic procedural maneuvers the UC system has implemented in order to continue to use race as a factor in admissions without being liable for using race as a factor in admissions -- and she also details the human cost of a social experiment that, no matter how cleverly UC tries to spin it, keeps on failing. The article is lengthy, but worth a slow and careful read.
Posted by acta online at February 5, 2007 10:28 AM
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