Stuart Taylor argues that universities should be required to reveal the scope and content of the racial preferences they use in admissions. I don’t know that I’d require this of private universities, but I do know that while I have ambiguous views on the merits about preferences, I hate the hypocrisy, obfuscation, and outright lying that often accompanies them. Consider the response of a dean of a prominent state law school when she was asked on national television in April 1995 why there was “a widespread perception that the minorities who are admitted with those special considerations are the result of standards being lowered.” She responded that law schools do not lower standards to admit minorities. Rather, when schools “‘choose between two equally qualified persons,’ . . . [they] pick the ‘person of color’ in order to ‘do something about the really fundamental problem of racial prejudice in this society.” Geez, well I guess the whole controversy over Prop 209 and later Bollinger was over nothing, then.
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