{"id":9899,"date":"2007-10-01T16:29:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T22:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9899"},"modified":"2007-10-01T16:29:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T22:29:01","slug":"a-conundrum-for-professor-ric-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9899","title":{"rendered":"A Conundrum for Professor Ric [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/018623.php\">Mirengoff at Power Line<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>California law (Proposition 209) prohibits the use of race as a factor in, among other things, admission to public universities. If this article in the New York Times Magazine by David Leonhardt is accurate, UCLA is violating California law. It&#8217;s doing so by preferring African-American applicants under the guise of preferring low income students. We know that these preferences are racially based because, according to Leonhardt, as low income black admittees rose last year, the overall number of low income admittees fell. In essence, low income African-Americans took slots that previously had gone to low income students of other races (mostly, it seems, Asians). As Leonhardt, a fan of what UCLA has done here, puts it: &#8220;Looking at the numbers, it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s hard not to conclude that race was a factor in this year\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s admissions decisions.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*******<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In any case, it&#8217;s against the law to grant an income based preference to black students but not to students of other races &#8212; if that still matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does it matter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirengoff at Power Line: California law (Proposition 209) prohibits the use of race as a factor in, among other things, admission to public universities. If this article in the New York Times Magazine by David Leonhardt is accurate, UCLA is violating California law. It&#8217;s doing so by preferring African-American applicants under the guise of preferring low income students. We know that these preferences are racially based because, according to Leonhardt,<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9899\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}