<p>Calmom, I truncated the article substantially because of quotation constraints, but I don't think I quoted out of context because John Fund argues against O'Connor :
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She seemed strangely unaware, however, of the growing evidence that racial preferences might have actually decreased the likelihood that blacks and Hispanics will graduate from college. Put differently, if the body of evidence is correct, the whole affirmative action enterprise has been deeply and tragically flawed from the beginning, failing to achieve its most basic aim: increasing the number of minority college graduates, doctors, lawyers and other professionals...
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I also do not advocate Fund's position on AA and did not say that I did - I did find Fund's notion that the "cascading effect" of assigning students to "less highly ranked campuses" directly linked to AA and UC diversity goals to be highly provocative to say the least.</p>