UCLA's new admission policy rights a wrong

It's no secret that the number of African American students admitted to UCLA plummeted after 1996, when Proposition 209 was passed. The proposition banned "preferential treatment" of race, sex or ethnicity in admissions to California's public universities, and by fall 2006, only 250 of the 12,189 students admitted to UCLA's freshman class were African American. That's about 2% -- the lowest number since at least 1973.

By Darnell M. Hunt

September 7, 2008