Orange County Register: No melting pot
More of California’s high school graduating seniors are black and Hispanic, but fewer can be found at University of California.
The news reverberated like an earthquake within UC Irvine’s small population of black students.
Only 96 of nearly 5,000 freshmen who planned to enroll at UCLA this fall were black – the lowest number in decades.
“It’s horrible to hear something like that – it’s hard to put into words how you feel,” said Blake Brown, a UCI biology major who hopes to go to medical school. “Ninety-six students. And probably a lot of them are athletes.”
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