相信大家还记得几个月前我们在这里发起的反高校“族裔优先”录取政策的签名活动。这是今天80-20教育基金会给大家的进展报告：
一个知名的犹太组织将和我们亚裔一起来递交“法律之友"文件.（是的，犹太朋友们认为一百多年前藤校限制他们的入学率不对，现在限制亚裔的入学率也不对。）带有咱们五万亚裔民调结果的"法律之友"文件应该在5/29正式递交最高法院。
请看下图，今年哈佛亚裔录取率是近五年来最高的（15%的增长），相信这和大家一起的努力有一定的关系。
请大家继续关心和支持我们为保护自己孩子上他们理想的高校的权利。
全文请见：
http://www.8020politicalpower.blogspot.com/
Monday, May 21, 2012
BATTLES have begun
Battles in the Supreme Court AND in the court of public opinion have BEGUN. Please FORWARD this e-newsletter.
Purpose? To reverse or substantially weaken the current "race-conscious" college admission policy.
[A] In Our Nation's Highest Court, 80-20 has
(1) partnered with Brandeis Center For Human Rights, a well-known Jewish org., to co-file an amicus brief. Kenneth Marcus, Center's President, was staff director of The federal Civil Rights Commission.
Marcus said,"It wasn't right for the Ivies to limit Jewish students then, it's not right for Ivies to limit Asian Ams students now."
http://brandeiscenter.com/ .
(2) engaged Alan Gura, a constitutional law specialist, who recently won an unexpected and important case in the Supreme Court.
http://gurapossessky.com/wordpress/attorneys/alan-gura/ .
(3) An amicus brief shall be filed by us on May 29th.
[B] In the Court of Public Opinion, 80-20 has greatly
(1) publicized IRREFUTABLE evidence of shocking discrimination against AsAms by "race-conscious" admission policy:
To receive equal consideration by elite colleges, Asian Americans must outperform* Whites by 140 points, Hispanics by 280 points, Blacks by 450 points in SAT (Total 1600).
(2) publicized RECENT newspaper articles focused on the connection between the earlier Jewish experience in Ivies and the recent AsAm experience. See for instance a 4/29/12 Chronicle of Higher Ed article
http://chronicle.com/article/Asian-Americans-the-New-Jews/131729/ .
[C] What Is 80-20 Trying To Achieve Thru. [A] & [B]?
Many Supreme Court justices are quite aware of how the Ivies limited the number of Jewish students when they themselves were attending colleges. A joint brief with the Brandeis Center may help invoke their sense of injustice that Asian Am students face today.
We want to thank Mr. Marcus, Mr. Gura and others in the legal & Jewish Am. community for helping to forge this strategy.
[D] A Silver Lining?
When we begin to fight for ourselves, others may then help as seen in [A] & [B] above. Others may even respond positively. See below:
A possible exam 5ba6 ple is a 15% increase in Harvard's offer to AsAm students THIS year (class of 2016) as compared with the past 5 years. See below:
http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/images/assets/table-1.png
80-20 fights for you. Disturbingly, APALC, headed by Stewart Kwoh ( skwoh@apalc.org ) goes out of its way to support a "race-conscious" college admission policy. Pls. continue to reason & plead with him. If he refuses to respect our community's overwhelming consensus, then hold him ACCOUNTABLE.
COMMENT on our Posterboard please. Click on http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/politicaledu/posterboard.asp.
Kindly please sign your real identity and show the courage of your conviction.
Sincerely
S. B. Woo
President, 80-20 National Asian American Educational Foundation
http://80-20EF.org
* A finding by Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade using the vast "National Study of College Experience" (NSCE) database, published in his 2009 book, entitled "No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal."
Posted by 80-20 Initiative at 8:37 AM
