Dear Editor: The recent Capital Times editorial ?UW doesn?t need diversity advice from cradle of the Confederacy,? is a wonderful piece of ?Na-na-na-na-boo-boo? finger-wagging, but it does little to address the real weaknesses of the Center for Equal Opportunity?s reports of racism in UW-Madison?s admissions policy. The most obvious flaw in the CEO?s report is that the percentage of the pool of black students who apply to UW-Madison who are then accepted is significantly higher than the percentage from the pool of white students. Presumably, a great many more white students apply to UW-Madison than black students, making the CEO?s statistic not particularly helpful.
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