Richard Kahlenberg makes some good points in this piece just posted by The Chronicle of Higher Education. In particular, he explains how helping less-qualified, well-off applicants get into the University of Texas is part-and-parcel of the way its racial preferences work, too. Kahlenberg concludes that, in both instances, UT’s president demands, “Give me discretion and ‘trust me’ to do what’s best. But given his record of using discretion for those who least need it, why should we?”