Given your experience and knowledge gained, and in light of the 1996 California legislative action to prohibit state-sponsored programs, do you believe there have been positive benefits in Affirmative Action programs? Do you believe they should continue? Please feel free to give examples of successful implementations or not-so-successful examples, and be willing to qualify and explain your answer by geography or other factors. Often your answer may be couched in the context of whether your firm would implement a voluntary program, and the reasons why.