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A Startling Statistic at UCLA .. only 96 blacks are expected in this fall's freshman class.
LA Times ^ | 6/3/06 | Rebecca Trounson

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: academia; affirmativeinaction; blacks; blackstudents; commiecampus; expected; freshmanclass; highereducation; startling; statistic; ucla; ucsystem
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1 posted on 06/03/2006 5:25:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

20 of the 96 are recruited athletes.


2 posted on 06/03/2006 5:25:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - "The Road to Peace in the Middle East runs thru Damascus.")
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To: NormsRevenge

The End Times are nigh, I tell ya!


3 posted on 06/03/2006 5:26:18 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
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To: NormsRevenge

Good. If they're not qualified for UCLA, they should attend somewhere they can handle the work. (/Thomas Sowell paraphrase)


4 posted on 06/03/2006 5:26:35 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I am a daughter of God, a child of the King, a holy fire burning with His love.)
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To: NormsRevenge

We must go and tell the King!


5 posted on 06/03/2006 5:27:35 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: NormsRevenge
Shame you have to now EARN your way in instead of getting a free pass with racist government programs. Boo-hoo.

Praise God for the California Civil Rights Initiative.

6 posted on 06/03/2006 5:28:32 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (Lenning for SPI, Strickland for Controller, Parrish for Treasurer, No on 81, No on 82)
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To: ladyinred

Who is the king?


7 posted on 06/03/2006 5:30:00 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


8 posted on 06/03/2006 5:30:59 PM PDT by marron
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To: NormsRevenge

What percentage of the US population is black?


9 posted on 06/03/2006 5:31:02 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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11 or 12 % I think..


10 posted on 06/03/2006 5:32:32 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - "The Road to Peace in the Middle East runs thru Damascus.")
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To: NormsRevenge

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>


11 posted on 06/03/2006 5:33:01 PM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, come Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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Easy solution:

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.

12 posted on 06/03/2006 5:35:09 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ("I don't think Pat Kennedy is crazy, he's just a drunk" -- G. Gordon Liddy (5-10-06))
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To: NormsRevenge

Twenty percent of UCLA's budget should be given to Compton College.


13 posted on 06/03/2006 5:35:46 PM PDT by Tax Government (Defeat the evil miscreant donkeys and their rhino lackeys.)
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To: bnelson44

Ask yourself, "what are their role models?"

Doctors, lawyers, engineers, professors .... or.... Rap 'Artists', Pimps and Pushers?

Why should this be a surprise?


14 posted on 06/03/2006 5:36:21 PM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, come Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Just checked, it is 12%

thanks


15 posted on 06/03/2006 5:37:23 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: NormsRevenge

Forty years of welfare and lowered standards for blacks is bearing bitter fruit.


16 posted on 06/03/2006 5:37:27 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: NormsRevenge

...and they're all on basketball scholarship.


17 posted on 06/03/2006 5:37:32 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (I wish a political party would come along that thinks like I do.)
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To: NormsRevenge
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.

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.

18 posted on 06/03/2006 5:38:08 PM PDT by calex59 (No country can survive multiculturalism. Dual cultures don't mix, history has taught us that!)
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To: NormsRevenge
It is becuse their mascot is a symbol of racism:**

** Believe it or not, this charge was made a few yesrs ago, just before USC, once again, kicked the Bruins butt in football.

19 posted on 06/03/2006 5:39:00 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ("I don't think Pat Kennedy is crazy, he's just a drunk" -- G. Gordon Liddy (5-10-06))
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To: Tax Government
Twenty percent of UCLA's budget should be given to Compton College.

Dr. Dre, is that you?

20 posted on 06/03/2006 5:39:03 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
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