Here's the LA Times story with me in it.

For many on campus, the growing debate over who should be admitted bears little resemblance to the battles over free speech or other movements that have roiled this activist community in the past. The issues are muddier, more complex — and many of the relevant facts, for now, remain under wraps.

"There's not enough information," said Kevin Deenihan, 21, a senior economics major who runs a Web log for campus news. "It's still pretty vague."

I like the implication that if we really understood what was going on, we'd actually care. What I actually meant was that the LA Times is clearly pushing harder then their own knowledge. All we know is SAT information, a now-minor part of total admissions and a poor measurement in any case. 'Muddier?' 'More Complex?' How about LESS Complex-- in that this is a very predictable result of Comprehensive Admissions. And it's much less complex then the fight over Affirmative Action, over Free Speech, and so on, mostly because this is a marginal result to an Admissions process that basically ensured these results in advance.

Oh well. I felt bad for the Reporters. They were sent up to write the text for the headline 'Students really care about LA Times story.' But this is of no interest to non-political students; they were admitted! This was a good result for pro-aff. am. students, who are hardly inclined to complain. The Republicans are a bit teed, but they have more important battles to fight. I suggested that a better story would be 'Students lose interest in Admissions battles,' but it didn't fly. It is, of course, possible that there will be a furor if this leads to a push to ditch Comprehensive Admissions, but we aren't there yet, and I doubt we ever will be.

Word on the street is that some more LAT Reporters are poking around Berkeley, trying to find the people admitted with low SATs. They're also following up on the story I broke a few days ago about the Administration interviewing some of the students admitted with low SATs.Email This Post!