Evidently, some conservative groups don't trust public universities when it comes to affirmative action. Three national organizations are hoping sunshine laws will require universities to disclose just how race factors into admissions decisions. Not surprisingly, college officials aren't eager to cooperate.

What would these organizations do with such information? What would it prove? Who knows? But according to one group's spokesman, taxpayers "have every right to know precisely how applicants are being treated" by public institutions.

We have every right to know lots of things we'll never know.