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...Albert Carnesale left his position as Harvard's provost and leaped into the eye of a storm as he assumed the chancellorship of the University of California at Los Angeles. Carnesale arrived at UCLA in the wake of the passage of state Proposition 209, the popularly approved initiative that barred state universities from considering race as a factor in admissions decisions. Carnesale knew that he had no choice whether to obey the law; if he did not, he would be fired...
...barrage of anti-209 student protesters Carnesale suddenly faced at UCLA had little concern for his job safety or adherence to a popularly passed law. In their eyes, Carnesale was their servant, accountable above all else to undergraduate sentiment. If Carnesale would not disobey the law, protesters reasoned, perhaps he could be urged to issue public statements, as his predecessor had, criticizing 209 as harmful to the rich ethnic and racial diversity of UCLA. Despite a student takeover of the main administrative building and raging protests in campus quads, however, Carnesale refused to buckle...
...protesters at UCLA seemed disoriented by the show of courage by a university administrator. UCLA's Daily Bruin reported that one objector's sign taunted: "We love you Carnesale! Bruins for spineless bureaucrats." It seems these students myopically believed that having a spine meant agreeing with their own claims regardless of their validity...
...plan--dubbed an "affirmative reaction"--includes vigorous pursuit of academically qualified minority applicants, welcoming programs led by current minority students, and--most importantly--a $6.5 million program to improve the quality of low-performing minority Los Angeles high schools by training teachers and sending UCLA students to mentor minority high school students...
...UCLA (bkc), NESN...