<p>Do you really want to advocate a system of de facto discrimination in California? In which Berkeley becomes the Asian campus, and hispanics and African-Americans end up clustered at Riverside? </p>
<p>It seems to me that the problem highlighted in the article is pedagogical -- maybe smaller classes and more focus on the quality of undergraduate teaching for students at Cal & UCLA would benefit all the students there. </p>
<p>I noticed you also quoted out of context -- the first part of the article discussed Justice O'Connor's position on affirmative action, quoting her as follows:
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Justice O'Connor continued to defend her original position. (in Grutter v. Bollinger) She lamented statistics that showed that as a result of California's Proposition 209 (passed in 1996) only 2.2% of UCLA freshmen were black, and a fifth of those were on athletic scholarships. (California's overall population is 6.1% black.)
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