describes what happened to not only California's university system, once the best public system of higher education in the world, but to the whole state: Proposition 13.
It was the WORST thing that state ever passed into law, and, over 30 years after it became law, the state is still suffering the consequences.
Peter Schrag years ago, in his book Paradise Lost, described the whole sorry story in gruesome detail.
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