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...unconscionable, Noguera added, that there are only 98 African-American students in Berkeley's first-year class and two-thirds of the males are scholarship athletes...
...That's because black students who can entertain us on the football field or the basketball court will always be welcome at Berkeley, regardless of their grades or test scores," he wrote in his letter to the Daily...
...Noguera does not fully blame the Berkeley administration for the decline in student diversity, realizing that the school's hands are tied by Proposition 209, the 1996 California initiative ending affirmative action...
...Berkeley may be powerless to increase diversity in its student body, but the diversity of the faculty is a goal well within their reach, as faculty committees are largely responsible for hiring new professors. Noguera says he finds these committees' inaction, and the fact that they have failed to increase the numbers of women and minorities in their ranks, reprehensible...
...Berkeley campus, which responded to the passing of Prop. 209 in 1996 with thousand-strong demonstrations in the university's Sproul Plaza, reacted with consternation to Noguera's departure...