In an article, "The new calculus of diversity on campus," (The New York Times, Feb. 2, 2003), Jacques Steinberg writes that the end of affirmative action in admissions has benefitted one minority: Asian Americans. Steinberg reports, after a federal court in 1996 barred the University of Texas from practicing affirmative action, the main beneficiaries were Asian-Americans. The percentage of freshmen entering the Austin campus who were Asian-American rose to 18 percent last fall, compared with 14 percent in the fall of 1995. Almost one in five freshmen at the university's flagship school is Asian, in a state Asian-Americans constitute about 3 percent of the general population. In California, the end of affirmative action results in increase of 6 percentage points to 45 percent of Asian-Americans in 2001, while Black fell by three percentage points to 4 percent. The end of race-conscious admissions has led to increase of Asian American enrollment at the public universities in California and Texas.