Saturday, September 28, 2002

UCLA STUDENT GOVERNMENT USES RACE TO REJECT JOB APPLICANTS
The Angry Clam reports that the UCLA Undergraduate Student Association Council rejected well-qualified people because they were white. The Daily Bruin reported this racism on Thursday, and then condoned the racism in a Friday editorial.

UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh writes that the UCLA student government is in violation of California's Proposition 209 color-blindness initiative, which bans discrimination or preferential treatment on the basis of race and other factors. Professor Volokh also thinks this is in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the federal Equal Protection Clause.

So what's the chance of the UCLA administration actually doing something about this gross racism? Zero?