BERKELEY -- Conservative students at the University of California cooked up an anti-affirmative action protest Wednesday, holding a bake sale with treats priced according to the buyer's race or ethnicity.
For the same chocolate chip cookie, whites were being charged $1.50, Asians $1.25, Latinos (Hispanics not from Mexico) $1.00, Chicanos (Hispanics from Mexico), 75 cents, American Indians 50 cents, blacks, 25 cents.
The cookies, bought in bulk from a big-box stores, weren't selling like hot cakes; the grand total was 30.
"We weren't expecting to find 100 people coming out and agreeing with us," said Kelly Coyne, a member of Berkeley College Republicans, the group holding the sale.
Berkeley, along with all UC campuses, stopped considering race and gender in 1997, a switch which caused enrollment of blacks and Hispanics to drop sharply. In recent years, the numbers have increased but less so at the top campuses of Berkeley and UCLA. UC recently switched to a system known as comprehensive review admissions which takes into account factors such as hardship or poverty but not race.<
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Seems she wasn’t too interested in remaining in that position as she is running for City Council.
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