This problem could have been avoided if they'd hired me for the copy editing position I was obviously born for.

Note to the Daily Cal's copy editors: This is why it's sometimes necessary to clean up quotes. The word isn't exasperated, but exacerbated.

Having been a reporter, asking "What the fuck did you just say?" is a crucial part of the job. The Daily Cal didn't do theirs, but then again, that's not news.
 

All of this talk about Prop 209 exaspirates me. This is a policy that's been gone for ten years, yet it's supposed to be a "canary in a mineshaft"? If so, the canary's been dead for an awful long time. It is no more. It has ceased to be.

To me, the lack of admissions of minorities would be a better pedagogical "canary" in itself. It's a symptom of larger problems -- the failure of the K-12 educational system in California (and the U.S.), and the persistant economic inequality. And if you want affirmative action, you'd just assume cover up these underlying issues instead of taking them on.

On a side note, in defense of the good people of UC Davis: I teach two discussion sections for the Social Problems class, and no one among the 50 students in my classes wanted to defend affirmative action. Everyone, black or white, liberal or conservative, felt that we should be eliminating inequalities in the system, not allowing them to persist.

This kind of dissappointed me in a way, because I had been fired from UCSA due to my opposition of affirmative action. Everyone knows that UCSA supports affirmative action, except apparently me; I wanted to have an actual debate on the merits of the issue. Sadly, they didn't give me that chance before recalling me, and my students in discussion all agreed with me. I feel cheated out of my debate. I guess it serves me right for trying to represent the 200,000 students of the UC System instead of trying to represent UCSA.