[AQGeiger]

Here you go. I have to eat a bit of crow, though. The article is by Thomas Sowell. Walter Williams does write on affirmative action, but the subject of UC Berkeley in particular is Sowell's forte.

The Other Side of Affirmative Action

This article is from 1999. I know he's written on the subject since then, but that was the first thing I found, and I'm trying to give you a speedy response. Jewish World Review has a very complete archive of his articles, you could find other items on the subject there.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

THERE WERE 55 BLACK STUDENTS attending the University of California at Irvine in 1997, before racial preferences and quotas were outlawed. In 1998 that number rose to 71 and in 1999 to 81. This was a total increase of 47 percent in two years.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell060899.asp

Therefore the effect on black graduation rates of the initiative outlawing affirmative action started in 2002, and after this June we will have three years' data on the changeover's effect. I want the data!