Tuesday, February 15, 2005
So, would you like to elaborate?
Evil Ward!
Editor -- No matter what any of us think about Ward Connerly's legacy as a UC regent (Open Forum, Feb. 14), the fact remains that there are fewer African American and Latino students enrolled in the university than when I was a Berkeley undergraduate more than 30 years ago. This is bad policy, bad business and bad democracy, any way you look at it.
It is bad for the students who don't get in and bad for the ones who do. It is a sign of societal collapse and a fine example of a continuing class struggle that no one really wants to admit exists, particularly those whose sons and daughters attend UC.
As is the case with so many trends in public life today, it is one that invites dishonor of our state and our country. The irony is that qualified minority student applications receive more complete assessments at private universities such as Harvard, Stanford and the University of Southern California than at UC. So much for our California heritage, the Master Plan for Education and the institutions supported by taxpaying citizens of all backgrounds.
As for Connerly, thanks a bunch.
SKIP CORSINI
San Rafael
So, when you say things, especially like those in that second paragraph, it's often nice to, you know, elucidate a tad. A sign of societal collapse, eh?
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