Monday, April 11, 2005
Needs more black
Bob 2.0 on Affirmative Action!
Birgeneau pointed to the drop of underrepresented minority students, specifically black and Hispanic students. In 1997, the last year before the proposition's implementation, UC Berkeley enrolled 260 black students. After eight years of gradual decline, this year's fall class has 108 black students enrolled, the lowest number yet.
"That's too small a number to form a supportive student community, and many of Berkeley's black freshmen view themselves as struggling against a hostile environment," he wrote in his op-ed.
Maybe they should find some white friends, then.
Despite Birgeneau's seemingly more nuanced approach to fighting the plummeting numbers, critics of affirmative action continue to blast the opposition's arguments.
Critics blast the opposition? Like, WTF?
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