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...number of Asian-American applicants is upfive percent over last year; black applicants areup six percent. Mexican-American and Puerto Ricanapplicants both jumped around 20 percent, butFitzsimmons cautioned that those figures werebased on "smaller bases...
Okihiro, who is also the visiting director of the Asian-American Studies department at Columbia, emphasized the need for greater attention to ethnic studies in a speech Saturday afternoon...
...There is a hunger--a painfully sharp hunger--for Asian-American studies in students east of California," he said...
Students in the audience asked Okihiro for strategies to promote such departments on their campuses. Okihiro cited a strike at Columbia and a sit-in at Princeton, both of which resulted in Latino and Asian-American Studies departments or positions...
...Asian-American students showed a modest 3 percent gain in admissions...