The Pasadena Star-News reports Asian parents in the cities east of Los Angeles are actively opposing a state Senate bill that would permit universities and colleges to use race as a selection criterion. You can't blame them, their hard-working children deserve to be, and are, over-represented in the state's higher education systems.
On the other hand, you can't blame state university administrators for doing whatever is necessary to get more Hispanics into their classrooms. In this case "whatever" is passing an exemption to Proposition 209 which banned race-based admissions.
Why? Because unless half their students are Hispanic, those same administrators will be unable to justify state funding to a legislature that will soon represent the state's Hispanic near-majority. And you'd better believe this quid pro quo relationship is crystal clear to California's university presidents, chancellors, and trustees.
You can imagine what Gresham's Law (applied to diminished student quality) suggests must happen to public undergraduate education in CA. It's not pretty.
