Berkeley's Chancellor Attacks Regent for Publicly Questioning Admissions Practices

The chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley has harshly criticized the chairman of the university system's Board of Regents for releasing a report that suggested that Berkeley was turning away too many applicants with high standardized-test scores in favor of students with weaker academic qualifications.

In a private letter dated October 10, Robert M. Berdahl, Berkeley's chancellor, wrote that the report's public release "has done singular damage to the Berkeley

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