Prometheus 6

We're undoing all his hard work. 

"One of three things must be happening," Connerly said Thursday. "Black kids have either gotten extremely smart or extremely competitive in a way they weren't five or six years ago, or there's been a deliberate, carefully orchestrated effort by a lot of admissions people to conspire to increase those numbers, or they've found a proxy for race."

Maybe it became just as difficult to figure out who to suppress as who to further suppress.

The initial drop in applications was because Black students felt unwelcome, that's all. It takes a moment to adjust to a collective slap in the face.

UCLA sees an increase in black student admissions
The Westwood campus offers spots in its fall class to 392 African American students, up from 249 a year ago.
By Rebecca Trounson and Richard C. Paddock
Times Staff Writers
April 6, 2007

UCLA has offered admission for the fall to 392 African American students, up from the 249 who were offered a place in the current freshman class, officials announced Thursday.

That part of the University of California's detailed annual release on freshman admissions was greeted with satisfaction and a measure of relief by UCLA administrators and others who had expressed concern about declining numbers of black students on the Westwood campus. The number reached a crisis last fall, when only about 100 black freshmen enrolled — or about 2% of a class of more than 4,800.