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If YOU didn't help 80-20, would
an
UNIQUE and middle-of-the-road AsAm view on college admissions still have developed and spread like this?
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The Credit Goes to YOU
Look at the time sequence of how this
UNIQUE and independent AsAm view on college admissions had spread. It originated with your support to create a financially independent 80-20.
(1) On 8/1/2016, 80-20 EF took this unique & Middle-of-the-road position:
We would embrace diversity, but
oppose strongly the discriminatory
practice by elite colleges, which force AsAm applicants
to yield
140
SAT points to white applicants.
To spread the idea, EF started
(2) On 9/14/2016, Harvard's own campus paper, Harvard Crimson, published
(3)
On 1/30/2017, The NY Times published an Op Ed supporting the same
New Postive Development
(4)
On 1/31/2017, one day after the NY Times article, Frank H. Wu, former
Chancellor and Dean of UC, Hastings College of the Law and Chair,
Committee of 100, published in Huffington Post
He supports the 80-20 position as the following except makes clear:
"Now, the real problem has become clear.
Asian Americans might be against "preferences." What we
should
understand, however, is that the vast bulk of such
preferences
operate to benefit whites over Asian Americans,
not African Americans and Hispanics."
Being a law professor, he also stated his legal objection to asking
AsAm applicants to yield 140 SAT pts to their white peers.
"There is no good basis for saying that whites were
discri
minated against by Asian Americans historically, such
that
a remedy is necessary; or that they suffer some
disadvan
tage vis-a-vis Asian Americans today, such that
mitigation is needed."
To Cause More Positive Changes
Shamefully, most AsAm "civil
rights" orgs. supported "race-
preference"
admissions, then and now; in their press releases and in legal actions.
Want to write to such organizations and
ask them to reconsider their positions? Grassroots pressure is the
most influential persuasion, although most of these orgs obtain
an overwhelming % of their funding from outside of our community
. Money talks.
This was the petition that started all of the positive development.
So
We need 100,000 signers in another 1.5
years to demonstrate the united support of our community for this unique
and seeking the middle ground
proposal for college admissions. Otherwise, the
$10 per petitioner donation will be returned. Note: My wife and I each donated $250 to this petition.
President and a volunteer for the past 18 years
80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization,
Acknowledgement: Another big check came in from my "Swan Song" fundraising.
Mr. & Mrs. Chuan Shue Lee
, Newark, DE $1,000. Thank you.
To know more about 80-20, view these videos :
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