To the Editor:

I have read with interest the articles about affirmative action recently published on this page by Ms. Li, who advocates an end to the program, and Mr. Crystal and Ms. Ohene-Asah, who have both defended it. Under other circumstances, I would not seek to interject my own comments into an independent forum of student opinion. In this case, however, the back-and-forth has ranged into territory reminiscent of the polluted culture wars and politics of the 1990s, when I first...