In an op-ed piece, Dean Frank Wu of the WSU Law School argues that affirmative action programs are both necessary and effective. He counters the argument by UCLA law professor Frank Sander that racially conscious college admissions policies harm rather than help African Americans. "It isn't clear," Wu writes, "why anyone who, like Sander, insists he wished to help African American students would want to abolish a proven means of doing so." A photo of Wu accompanies the piece.