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This is supposed to as you indicated in the intro, be a benefit, not just to the school, but to the students who are the intended -- reported intended beneficiaries. but there's something called the mismatch effect. there's copious data that shows the intended beneficiaries suffer egregious harm as a result of this to a large extent. in many schools, for example, 2 1/2 times as many blacks failed than whites, 50% of blacks congregate in the bottom 10% of the gpa level. and so a lot of these folks will transfer from stem courses to softer courses because you can't take someone that's got an sat...

Impressed by the fact that the university of texas may have fewer. maybe it ought to have fewer. >> we have with us one of the authors of the book "mismatch," who also wrote one of the briefs for the court, ucla professor richard sander, and someone who said she benefited from affirmative action, civil rights attorney martin. professor, did he get it right, do right by your theory? >> he oversimplified it a lot, it's not a theory about race, but about preferences. any kind of preference can have a mismatch effect, but he was raising an important issue, i think. the underlying fact no one shoul...