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...club gave up on its restaurant, which had been the focus of club life for decades. Members would buy tickets downstairs and then move up to the third floor for meals with dates or buddies from the club. The number of people eating in the club had dwindled to the point that the operation was too expensive to continue. "The popularity of getting a little dressed up and going to dinner, that atmosphere was waning," Minevitz said. "The club was running an expensive restaurant for very few undergraduates." In 1986, the University pulled the Pudding out of its immediate problems...
...administrators said that increased outreach efforts have had a large role in raising the number of minority applicants. In the past few years, money spent for minority outreach has doubled, from roughly $80 million a few years ago to $60 million last year...
...first time since when California's state university system adopted a race-blind admissions policy, the number of black, American Indian and Latino students accepted into the University of California system has reached the level it attained before affirmative action was abolished...
...system admitted 7,336 minority applicants this year--10 students more than the number accepted in 1997, when affirmative action was last used in the admissions process...
...Berkeley, for example, the number of those admits has dropped, from 1,778 in 1997 to 1,169 this year--a decline of 34 percent...