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...proliferation of ethnic and racial groups has led to what University of California at Berkeley sociologist Troy Duster has called "the Balkanization of the university." Each group wants its own building, its own programs, its own dances, even its own a capella singing group...
Minority students at Berkeley take offense when their white peers voice complaints about affirmative action, or oppose the creation of an ethnic studies program, Duster says...
...composition of Berkeley's student body went from about 90 percent white in the mid-1960s to about 45 percent white today. At Berkeley, Duster explains, diversity is an extremely loaded term. "It's an actual demographic issue," he says. "It wasn't just a buzzword...
...Berkeley is a highly selective school that attracts many more qualified applicants than it is able to accept. In addition to academic record, cultural background is considered by the admissions committee, Duster says. The median grade point average (GPA) for white and Asian admittees is 4.0. The median GPA for Black and Hispanic admitees...
Duster says that minority applicants are clearly qualified to attend Berkeley. But he says media coverage has portrayed this as a problem--and popular writers like Dinesh D'Souza and George Will don't realize that affirmative action is not affecting the quality of the student body...