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...opposed Prop. 209, and many still insist affirmative action is needed as much as ever. But the black science students gathered around the U.C. Irvine dining-hall table were confident that whatever the rules are, they can succeed under them. So is Elizabeth Lomeli. A Hispanic graduate of Santa Ana High School, she will attend Irvine in the fall after being rejected by UCLA. There's no way she'll ever know if she'd have got into UCLA under affirmative action, but she isn't upset about how things have worked out. "I just cared about the U.C. part...
...were a parent in Santa Ana, Calif., you wouldn't necessarily dream big dreams for your kids. The town is poor, 91% Hispanic, out of the mainstream. With luck, the kids will get high school diplomas, maybe a couple of years in community college. University? Out of the question. But what if the university wanted your kids and reached out to make sure they...
Meet Angie Contreras and Leslie Morales. The seventh-graders are standing beside each other only because their counselor, Patrick Yrarrazaval-Correa, has pulled them out of the lunchtime crowd at Santa Ana's Willard Middle School, in the shadow of the University of California at Irvine. "They don't like each other," Yrarrazaval-Correa says. "You know how middle school is." But the girls are his example of a new era. They used to be C and D math students. Now, after months at the math academy run by U.C. Irvine students at Willard, they are getting...
...really felt like the title was within our reach," said junior Ana Cenanovic. "It was going to be tough to win, thanks to us all scoring and doing season-bests at Ivies we proved we have what it takes to compete with Brown and Princeton...
Some of the coincidences he presents are so unlikely as to be laughable, and much of his symbolism (the fact that both Otto and Ana's names are palindromes, the attraction of a land where the sun never sets) goes unresolved the audience knows that these elements are supposed to be revealing of something but they are too underdeveloped to truly say anything. Medem simply has too much going on in his script to tie all the pieces together, to link all of the interesting elements he presents into a thematically unified whole...