***Click here to Watch the LIVESTEAM The Historical Rally of Thousands of Asian Americans at the Boston Copley Square Supporting SFFA’s legal fight against Harvard The link will be posted at round 11:45 am ET / 8:45 am PT Sunday, October 14, 2018.
Dear Friends, For decades, Harvard and many other elite universities have been discriminating against Asian American students, just as they did to Jewish students in the 1920s and 30s. Students For Fair Admissions (SFFA), a not-for-profit organization led by Mr. Edward Blum, sued Harvard in 2014 for its discriminatory practice in admissions. Last week, documents detailing Harvard’s admissions processes were made public. Discrimination evidenced in these documents is so overwhelming that SFFA moved for a summary judgment, “a request that the judge rule against Harvard without a trial, based on facts not in dispute.” Media coverage has been extensive, appearing in numerous major outlets. ...
August 6, 2017 Dear Prof. Chemerinsky: I am writing in response to your op-ed, “Don’t use Asian Americans to justify anti-affirmative action politics,” published by Washington Post on 8/3/2017. “Use”?? As first-generation Asian Americans, many of my friends and I are deeply offended by your politically motivated article that shows zero ounce of scholarship but is fraught with factual deficiency and logical flaws. I really hate to use such strong words, because you just became the new dean of my alma mater, Berkeley Law. I still want to congratulate you—you deserve it, as there are only so many T-14 deanships. When I received from Boalt the news that you were being interviewed for the job, I joked with others: “Should I feel excited or not. He is a terrific con law scholar, but so liberal. I probably would vote for him because Boalt only chooses liberal deans anyway.” Yet, it was the last thing in my mind that I would be disappointed so quickly, and so profoundly that now I have to write something so emotionally charged. ...
In April 2017, SVCAF submitted formal written feedback to the White House opposing the proposed changes to racial data subdivision in the 2020 Census. The full letter is shown below.