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...education, with the 1996 ballot initiative known as Proposition 209--such epithets are commonplace. But the young man in the Capitol was especially upset because the initial consequences of the university's new race-neutral policy were just being felt. In the first year without affirmative action at U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school, black admissions has dropped 81%, Hispanic admissions 50%. UCLA's law school reports a similar decline...
...prop up a system of artificial diversity," he says, "instead of doing the heavy lifting that leads to real equality." He sees some good news in the bad. Though California's new policy doesn't take effect for undergraduates until next spring, minority applications to elite universities such as Berkeley and UCLA are already dropping--while black enrollment is up at second-tier campuses like San Diego and Riverside. This suggests that the new policy won't shut minorities out of the system so much as bump them down to less prestigious schools in a "cascade effect" that will leave...
DIED. DIOGENES ANGELAKOS, 77, pioneering engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, whose studies of electromagnetic waves were interrupted in 1982 when a device of the Unabomber ripped apart his hand; in Berkeley...
...dirty little secrets of the death penalty, says Franklin Zimring, director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, is the way it "aggravates the suffering of people it's supposed to protect." Because capital punishment presents death as the target, the defendant "wins" for as long as he avoids execution. "We create a recipe for enragement and frustration," Zimring says...
...When I was at Berkeley, I would not have hesitated to say you should invest with an organization that has a proven track record of success," Barber says. "But now that I have to look at a broader range of things, I am not sure that's true...