i'm here to tell you i have a daughter who graduated with honors from bucknell in mechanical engineering and management. however, she was bitterly disappointed when she was rejected from cornell and uc berkeley. she took summer school courses taught by professors at cornell. in calc, she got an a plus. the professor came up to her and said, my dear, i don't know where you go to college but i will personally write a letter of recommendation for you to come to uc berkeley. my daughter stood up and said, sir, i've already been rejected by uc berkeley once, you will not have the opportunity to do it again. >> obviously there are going to be individual cases where you are going to see discrimination. i'm not saying discrimination occurred. in fact, i think berkeley in the sciences and engineering would love to have more women students and faculty if they could. i actually would bet that what has happened -- this is a longer story, but i think what has happened is that we have moved away from a system which i think of as a very meritocratic system based on performance and courses. and we have