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...addition, this year's acceptances include more Asian-American, Black and Hispanic students than ever before, a fact that Fitzsimmons again attributed to record numbers of applications in each category...
Included in the conference will be eight workshops on issues ranging from Third World unity to college admission quotas for Asian-Americans. Irene Shih '90, a former AAA representative to ECASU, said the Harvard group will conduct a two-hour workshop, entitled "Asian-American/Ethnic-American Studies," on the need to represent varied ethnicities in college curricula...
About a dozen members of the Asian-American Association (AAA) will join students from more than 50 other schools next month at Cornell University for the tenth annual college conference on the contributions of Asians to American society...
Eugene D. Lee '91, a member of the AAA committee, said Asian-Americans historically have been "a very unrecognized sector" of American society. "You never hear much about the Asian-American contribution," he said...
...would like to commend Spencer Hsu for his February 11 editorial on Asian-American admissions. As Hsu astutely observes, it is unrealistic to attribute the disparity between white and Asian-American admissions rates to a deliberate, systematic quota system. Those who look for such a system are not only wasting their time but also draw attention away from the real, subtle problems of discrimination inherent in our universities and other aspects of our society. Such persons make the same faulty and dangerous assumptions as do Harvard University and persons like William Pao, who believe that the absence of specifically anti...