** Believe it or not, this charge was made a few yesrs ago, just before USC, once again, kicked the Bruins butt in football.
Posted on 06/03/2006 5:25:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
This fall 4,852 freshmen are expected to enroll at UCLA, but only 96, or 2%, are African American — the lowest figure in decades and a growing concern at the Westwood campus.
For several years, students, professors and administrators at UCLA have watched with discouragement as the numbers of black students declined. But the new figures, released this week, have shocked many on campus and prompted school leaders to declare the situation a crisis.
UCLA — which boasts such storied black alumni as Jackie Robinson, Tom Bradley and Ralph Bunche, and is in a county that is 9.8% African American — now has a lower percentage of black freshmen than either crosstown rival USC or UC Berkeley, the school often considered its top competitor within the UC system.
The 96 figure — down by 20 students from last year — is the lowest for incoming African American freshmen since at least 1973. ...
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"Clearly, we're going to have to meet this crisis by redoubling our efforts, which have not yielded the results we'd like to see," said Chancellor Albert Carnesale, who met Friday with a delegation of undergraduates upset about the situation.
In a telephone interview before the meeting, Carnesale described the preliminary numbers for black freshmen as "a great disappointment" and said that UCLA has been trying for years to boost those levels, within the limits allowed by law.
He and other officials at UCLA and elsewhere said the problem of attracting, admitting and enrolling qualified black students is found at competitive universities across the country and that its causes are complex. In California, the problem is rooted partly in the restrictions placed on the state's public colleges and institutions by Proposition 209, the 1996 voter initiative that banned consideration of race and gender in admissions and hiring.
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20 of the 96 are recruited athletes.
The End Times are nigh, I tell ya!
Good. If they're not qualified for UCLA, they should attend somewhere they can handle the work. (/Thomas Sowell paraphrase)
We must go and tell the King!
Praise God for the California Civil Rights Initiative.
Who is the king?
The statistics are sad, but at least they are real. They show us what we have to do, which is work on the quality of our high schools, and work on the kids to both get them ready for college, and get them to want it.
Affirmative action doesn't really solve the problem, it masks the problem. Get rid of affirmative action, and you can't ignore the problem any more, you have to admit it and deal with it.
What percentage of the US population is black?
11 or 12 % I think..
Why, we must then randomly deliver diploma's to the 'dis-enfranchised' in California to make up for this travesty. It's all "Whitey's" fault! Da Man is keeping the brothers down! Power to the People.
Obviously, lowering standards so that blacks can get degree's isn't working well enough. It has got to be a conspiracy, because we all know that all cultures are inherently equal; it takes a village to raise a child, and all men (especially minorities) deserve the same chance in life (regardless how hard they prepare themselves). How else can we all be equal?
</Lib rant mode off>
Keep the Asians Out
Just because they are smart, work hard, study, keep their noses clean and respect family values, why should they get more then 50% of the admissions?
And yes, I am being sarcastic.
Twenty percent of UCLA's budget should be given to Compton College.
Ask yourself, "what are their role models?"
Doctors, lawyers, engineers, professors .... or.... Rap 'Artists', Pimps and Pushers?
Why should this be a surprise?
Just checked, it is 12%
thanks
Forty years of welfare and lowered standards for blacks is bearing bitter fruit.
...and they're all on basketball scholarship.
Oh, yeah, not that is was racist or anything to pick blacks over other students, no way./ SAR If the only way they can get blacks who are qualified is to phony up the records too bad.
I would like to know why they actually give a crap who attends their college as long as someone does. Enrollment of white males is way down from what it is used to be, not just as UCLA but at all colleges, I don't see them having a fit about that.
** Believe it or not, this charge was made a few yesrs ago, just before USC, once again, kicked the Bruins butt in football.
Dr. Dre, is that you?
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