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Timothy Egan’s recent feature in The New York Times
packs more slop into the messy ongoing battle between advocates and opponents of affirmative action in post-secondary education.
The racial roulette for classroom seats is a hot-button issue for California’s public university system in the post-Prop 209 era and, as Egan suggests, particularly so at UC Berkeley.
With the school’s Asian American admission numbers reaching around 46% in the past couple years, Egan’s article focuses
on Berkeley’s consequent administrative and social dynamics issues.
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Vital points raised:
- Race-neutral admissions policies vs. gaping discrepancies between inner-city and suburban high schools vs.
cultural capital differences as the main reason for increased admission numbers of Asian American students and the
subsequent drop in African American and Latino freshman counts - The sticky plurality vs. majority issue as applied to the Asian American minority on this campus
- Lumping a bunch of distinct ethnicities together under the “Asian” umbrella
- Discrepancies in standards among admission candidates of various ethnic minorities
- Stereotypes and ethnic cliques existing without a lot of protest among the students
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