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48
John H. Bunzel, “Affirmative Action Admissions: How it ‘Works’ at Berkeley,”
The Public Interest
, Fall 1988, p. 124, 125.

49
Ibid.
, p. 124.

50
Ibid.
, pp. 123, 125.

51
Ibid.
, p. 118.

52
Memorandum of September 7, 1982 from Director, Admissions Liaison Office, addressed: “Dear Liaison Officer,” p. 2.

53
Edward Fiske,
The Best Buys in College Education
(New York: Times Books, 1987), p. 408.

54
Charles J. Sykes,
The Hollow Men: Politics and Corruption in Higher Education
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1990), p. 47n.

55
Steven Mays, “Racism in University Admissions,”
Texas Review
, March 1989, p. 6.

56
See, for example, “Affirmative Action Report to the Senate of the Academic Council of Stanford University,”
Stanford University Campus Report
, February 22, 1989, pp. 13-18.

57
Final Report of the University Committee on Minority Issues
(Stanford: Stanford University, 1989), p. 59.

58
The minority LSAT score of 36 falls at the 75th percentile. See, for example, Sally F. Golfarb,
Inside the Law Schools: A Guide for Students by Students
, fourth edition (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1986), p. 49.

59
“A Numbers Game at Georgetown Law,”
New York Times
, April 18, 1991, p. A24.

60
Clarence Page, “Test Scores Aren’t All that Counts,”
San Jose Mercury News
, April 30, 1991, p. 7B.

61
See, for example, “Black Students are Dropping Out Because of Racism,”
The Chicago Maroon
(University of Chicago), October 11, 1988, p. 5.

62
Dinesh D’Souza, “Sins of Admissions,”
New Republic
, February 18, 1991, p. 33.

63
Shelby Steele,
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990), p. 138.

64
Oscar F. Porter,
Undergraduate Completion and Persistence at Four-Year Colleges and Universities: Detailed Findings
(Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities, 1990), p. 13.

65
See, for example, data cited in Barry Beckham,
The Black Student’s Guide to Colleges
, second edition (Providence: Beckham House Publishers, Inc., 1984), pp. 58, 64, 67, 72, 74, 84, 103, 105, 122, 126, 132, 136, 142, 156, 159, 169, 172, 199, 213, 219, 222, 231, 237, .265, 271, 274, 280, 283, 289, 296, 306, 312, 326, 331, 340, 346, 349, 360, 363, 368, 371, 376, 382, 385, 387, 406, 409, 418, 424, 431,445,458,460,469,481,484,486.

66
Oscar F. Porter,
Undergraduate Completion and Persistence at Four-Year Colleges and Universities
, p. 13.

67
See, for example, David Riesman,
On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1980), p. 80-81.

68
John H. Bunzel,
Race Relations on Campus: Stanford Students Speak
(Stanford: Stanford Alumni Association, 1992), pp. 9192.

69
Bernard D. Davis,
Storm Over Biology: Essays on Science, Sentiment and Public Policy
(Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1986), p. 172.

70
Ibid.
, p. 169.

71
Kent G. Mommsen, “Black Ph.D.s in the Academic Market Place,”
Journal of Higher Education
, April 1974, p. 253.

72
American Council on Education,
Minorities in Higher Education
(Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 1987), p. 21.

73
“Degrees Conferred by Racial and Ethnic Groups, 1986-87,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Almanac
, September 5, 1990, p. 15.

74
“Universities Awarded Record Number of Doctorates Last Year; Foreign Students Thought to Account for Much of the Increase,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, April 25, 1990, p. A1.

75
Dinesh D’Souza,
Illiberal Education
, p. 170.

76
Thomas Sowell,
Education: Assumptions vs. History
(Stanford: The Hoover Institution Press, 1986), p. 81.

77
See, for example, William Moore, Jr., and Lonnie H. Wagstaff,
Black Educators in White Colleges
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1974), pp. 130-313, 198.

78
Lisa James et al., editors,
Student Course Guide, Spring 1987
(Princeton: Princeton University, 1988), p. 3.

79
“Afro-American Students: Slip Sliding Away,”
The Confidential Guide: Courses at Harvard-Radcliffe 1988-89
(Cambridge, Mass.: The Harvard Crimson, Inc., 1988), p. 78.

80
The Confidential Guide: Courses at Harvard-Radcliffe, 1987-88
(Cambridge, Mass.: The Harvard Crimson, Inc., 1987), p. 73.

81
David Riesman,
On Higher Education
, p. 97.

82
Bayard Rustin, “Introduction,”
Black Studien: Myths and Realities
, edited by Bayard Rustin (New York: A. Philip Randolph Fund, 1969), p. 6.

83
Roy Wilkins, “The Case Against Separatism: ‘Black Jim Crow,’”
Ibid.
, pp. 38, 39.

84
Pamela Moreland and Johnson Johnson, “Black Studies Program under Scrutiny in Grade-Selling Scandal,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 31, 1988, Part II, p. 6.

85
David Riesman,
On Higher Education
, p. 250.

86
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “Academe Must Give Black-Studies Program Their Due,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, September 20, 1989, p. A56.

87
Gregory Lewis, “S.F. State Fight Over Who’ll Control Black Politics Class,”
San Francisco Examiner
, September 17, 1990, p. A4.

88
Jake Jones, “Minorities at Carleton: Beware of Becoming ‘Happy Campers,’”
The Carletonian
, February 17, 1989, p. 5.

89
This is an old pattern. See Thomas Sowell, “Colleges Are Skipping Over Competent Blacks to Admit ‘Authentic’ Ghetto Types,”
New York Times Magazine
, December 13, 1970, pp. 40, 49.

90
Bernard D. Davis,
Storm over Biology
, pp. 174, 190.

91
Michelle N. K. Collison, “Ivy League Black Students Urged to Commit Themselves to Improving the Lot of Those Who Are Less Fortunate,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, February 15, 1989, p. A31.

92
Ken Emerson, “When Legal Titans Clash,”
New York Times Magazine
, April 22, 1990, pp. 63, 66.

93
Randall L. Kennedy, “Racial Critiques of Legal Academia,”
Harvard Law Review
, June 1989, p. 1746n.

94
Quoted in Abigail Thernstrom, “On the scarcity of Black Professors,”
Commentary
, July 1990, p. 22.

95
“Brest: The Incident May Have Led to Something Positive,”
Stanford University Campus Report
, December 2, 1987, p. 15.

96
Derrick Bell, “The Price and Pain of Racial Perspective,”
Stanford Law School Journal
, May 9, 1986, p. 5.

97
Quoted in Randall L. Kennedy, “Racial Critiques of Legal Academia,”
Harvard Law Review
, June 1989, p. 1776.

98
Ibid.
, p. 1771.

99
Ibid.
, p. 1773.

100
Richard Delgado, “Racism in Legal Academe: White Professors Should Step Aside,”
San Francisco Banner Daily Journal
, February 27, 1990, p. 4.

101
Ibid.

102
Charles Horner, Patty Pyott, and Steven B. Loux, editors,
The Common-Sense Guide to American Colleges 1991-1992
(Washington, D.C.: The Madison Center for Educational Affairs, 1991), pp. 63-64.

103
Dinesh D’Souza,
Illiberal Education
, pp. 9-10.

104
“Masked Student Incident at Otero Sparks University Probe,”
Stanford University Campus Report
, May 25, 1988, p. 8.

105
Bill King, “BSU Chair Attacks Student Ignorance, Passivity and Racism,”
The Stanford Daily
, June 2, 1988, p. 6.

106
“Hypocrite of the Month,”
Vassar Spectator
, April/May 1988, p. 7.

107
Dinesh D’Sousa,
Illiberal Education
, p. 10; Jamie Hoare,
“Vassar Spectator
Slapped with Gag Order,”
Dartmouth Review
, October 5, 1988, p.8.

108
“Rich Radicals, Poor Conservatives,”
Michigan Review
(University of Michigan), March 1990, p. 4.

109
Irfan Khawaja, “Qualms About Carmichael,”
The Princeton Tory
, February 1990, p. 24. At Dartmouth, during ceremonies honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., the master of the ceremonies referred to “the fascist state of Israel.” John H. Sutter, “Deformation of a Dream,”
Dartmouth Review
January 25, 1989, p. 7.

110
“Anti-Semites at Columbia,”
New York Post
, January 26, 1991, p. 16.

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