Frank Wu, dean of Wayne State University Law School and also supporter of affirmative action, argued a recent study by UCLA law professor Richard H. Sander, who states that eliminating racial preferences in law schools will actually result in more, not fewer, black lawyers. Regarding Sander, Wu said, \"He uses old data from 2001 to support his claims that without affirmative action there would only be a 14 percent decline in the number of African-American law school applicants. If Sander had used new data from 2002 and 2003, there would be a more significant decline of 35 to 45 percent of African-American applicants.\"