Frank Riggs: “I just want to say, let us not get too hysterical about this debate. I want to quote Judson King, provost of the…”

“I just want to say, let us not get too hysterical about this debate. I want to quote Judson King, provost of the University of California, who acknowledged that the passage and the implementation of Proposition 209 has evened out diversity across the University of California system, all eight campuses, or nine if we include the University of California at San Francisco Medical School. John Leo, who quoted Mr. King, goes on to say in this commentary, ``Though there is no real shortage of hysterical commentary about the end of preferences,'' and we have certainly heard and seen that here tonight, Mr. Chairman, ``very few people have bothered to talk about the strong positive aspects. For one thing, a great burden has been lifted from the shoulders of the University of California's black and Hispanic students. No longer can anybody patronize them or stigmatize them as unfit for their campuses. From now on, all students in the system make it solely on the basis of brains and effort and everybody knows it. The end of preferences will help make campuses far more open and honest places.”