Admission Policy at UC Berkeley

To environmental red tape and workers’ compensation fraud, add racially discriminatory admission policies at the University of California to the list of reasons our state is out of favor with business. On top of high housing costs and high taxes, a working family faces $20,000 per year tuition and board for each of its college-age kids because UC is effectively closed to them. On the altar of “diversity,” this time vaguely defined socioeconomic diversity, we are sacrificing family traditions of higher education. This is a throwback to the Cultural Revolution in China when a peasant background was required for advancement. It’s not hard to sell Utah or Georgia to expansion-minded companies when California enacts these lunatic whims. What’s next? Penalties for kids who grow up in two-parent households?

NED McCUNE

Costa Mesa