Affirmative Action

David Leonhardt's "Upshot" column is about two books — Sheryll Cashin's Place Not Race and The Century Foundation Press's The Future Of Affirmative Action — that consider what will happen after the end of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. Without explaining why, Mr. Leonhardt ignores a third recent book about affirmative action in admissions, Cheating: An Insider's Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA, by Tim Groseclose, which suggests that some colleges will go on using race-based affirmative action even after it is outlawed and even while publicly denying that they are doing so. Mr. Groseclose's book documents how this happened at UCLA. It would have been good to include in this Times column.