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The author suggests that because affirmative action was deemed a poor solution to the "problem" that too many Asian kids attended the school, the only choice left was to abandon the entrance exam. Maybe the racist "problem" wasn't actually one and so racist solutions wouldn't be appropriate.


Not a poor solution, but one that was likely to (edit: administration feared would) result in lawsuits.




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