If Ms. MacDonald thinks things are bad in the elite UC system, she ought to take a look at the California State University System. In the six years I taught at Cal State Hayward, I saw a great many students—including students from the affluent suburbs—who were academically unprepared for ANY university curriculum, or for any competent high school curriculum. The fact is (heresy of heresies) many did not have the mental capacity for the work.

Remember, California had a governor, Gray Davis, who said that any student who achieved a "C" average "deserves a college education." To accommodate such students, standards had to be lowered. As a result of such "thinking," the CSU bachelor's degree of today often is of less worth than a high school diploma of a half century ago.

The "Rooney rule," the four-year-old NFL affirmative-action program, has resulted in two black coaches in the Super Bowl who are obviously qualified, and has increased the number of black coaches to nearly a third of the total coaches in the league, compared to just two black coaches before the Rooney rule mandated that at least one non-white person be interviewed for open head coaching positions. Before the Rooney rule, black assistant coaches said they never got an opportunity to talk to general managers and owners about head coaching jobs. Almost all the coaches hired since the Rooney rule was implemented have taken their teams from "worst to first" within two years of being hired and have an overall 80 percent winning record. Compare that with the NCAA, where only 5 percent of head football coaches are black. NCAA officials say that anti-affirmative laws like Prop 209 prevent the NCAA from implementing a college version of the "Rooney rule."

This is a heartbreaking story. Liberalism is deeply, thoroughly evil. The only thing to do is pass another initiative, taking away the authority of the universities to set admission standards, and select students. Establish some simple criteria, put them into the constitution, and pass it.

The other thing to do is work to elect Republicans. Which is what I do.