[T]he UC regents should be very wary of a report out of UC Berkeley proposing new levels of autonomy for each of the system’s 10 schools. That autonomy, according to the proposal coauthored by Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau, would include the ability to set tuition, within certain limits, and to determine how many students to accept from out of state… Berkeley and UCLA become campuses of rich students and poor scholarship students, while middle-class kids would be relegated to the less competitive schools… Meanwhile, other campuses with less star power would be left to fend for themselves, and the inequities among campuses would probably grow.

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by The Editors, The Los Angeles Times.

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