He Just Plain Doesn't Want Negroes To Get An Education

Normally, this would be seen as a good thing.

Abrams said UCLA officials would study the admissions data to learn the reasons for the changes this year, which also included an increase in Latino and white freshman admissions and a drop in that for Asians.

He said some of the shifts might be year-to-year fluctuations and others could be the result of the new admissions system, which UCLA officials have said is fairer for all applicants because it allows their achievements to be viewed in context.

But the chancellor emphasized that UCLA had not — and under California law could not — take race into account in its admissions. Proposition 209, a 1996 voter-approved initiative, bars the state's public institutions from considering race in admissions or employment decisions.

Ward Connerly, the conservative former UC regent and architect of Proposition 209, was skeptical.

"One of three things must be happening," Connerly said Thursday. "Black kids have either gotten extremely smart or extremely competitive in a way they weren't five or six years ago, or there's been a deliberate, carefully orchestrated effort by a lot of admissions people to conspire to increase those numbers, or they've found a proxy for race."

But about a dozen members of a community coalition that has pushed UCLA for change held a news conference Thursday to praise the school and its leaders.

Poor Ward. He cannot fathom the concept that there could actually be some smart black students - more than his two who he dotes on because they supposedly look white. So did the white students get surprisingly smarter too?

Hat tip to P6

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