Steven Greenhut on Angry Parents Crushing a Race-Quota Revival

Asian-American and Pacific Islander students make
up 14 percent of the state’s high-school graduates but nearly half
of freshmen at Berkeley. Unfortunately, students from other
ethnic groups haven’t always had as much success getting into the
state’s top universities. So Democratic senators in January passed
SCA 5, which would have restored racial and ethnic
quotas. Their stated goal wasn’t to reduce Asian attendance,
but given that top-university admissions are a zero-sum game, that
would have been an end result. Steven Greenhut highlights how the
Asian-American community defeated the measure.

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