Word: asian-american
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...newspaper executives responsible for efforts to make The Crimson more representative ethnically, socio-economically and intellectually. There has been noticeable success: Demographically, The Crimson is much more diverse today than six years ago. I counted at least 30 minority students among the 82 Crimson executives, including a female Asian-American vice president, an Asian-American managing editor and an African-American business manager...
Present were leaders from Native Americans at Harvard, the Undergraduate Council, the Chinese Students Association, the Asian-American Christian Fellowship, Black Students Association (BSA), RAZA, the Salient, Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), the Institute of Politics (IOP) and The Crimson...
Chinatown's expansion into the Combat Zone ischanging the role of the ethnic center as well asthe pornography zone, according to Paul H.M. Lee,a member of the Chinese Economic DevelopmentCouncil, the first federally-funded organizationthat supplies affordable housing and office spaceto Asian-American businesses...
...word, Texas race-normed its admissions process. Most admitted white and Asian-American students invariably came from the top of the national pool of law school applicants. Most black students came from the lower half of the national pool. In 1992, the median LSAT score of white admitted students was at the 91st percentile; the median LSAT score of black admitted students was at the 78th percentile. More than 600 whites with higher LSAT scores were denied admission before the first black was denied admission...
Some organizations could argue that minority students just tend to have less of an interest in politics, acting, writing, etc. After all, the number show that most Asian-American students on campus concentrate in science, math or some related field. But why is it that Asian-American students tend to concentrate in the sciences? Is it truly because of personal interest or the result of a larger societal problem of discrimination...