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Tag Archives: Princeton
Asian American Admissions after the end of Racial Affirmative Action
After the end of racial Affirmative Action last year, a key question of interest emerged: how would admissions to elite colleges be affected? Would Asian American admissions skyrocket? Would be Black and Hispanic numbers decline? Looking at some summaries of … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Education
Tagged Affirmative Action, college admissions, College Admissions Game, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, OiYan Poon, Princeton, Yale
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CAAMFest 2024: “Home Court” – The Basketball Journey of Ashley Chea
Director Erica Tanamachi, Producer Jenn Lee Smith, Executive Producer Diane Quon, and Writer/Editor Jean Kawahara Home Court was one of the CAAMFest 2024 films I was most excited to screen: “Ashley Chea is a Cambodian American basketball phenom. Home Court, … Continue reading
Posted in 8mm Film Review, 8Series, Local, Movies, San Francisco Bay Area, Sports
Tagged Ashley Chea, basketball, CAAMFest, CAAMFest 2024, Cambodian Americans, Princeton
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Xaivan Lee Emerges as a star on Princeton University Basketball Team
Earlier this year when Princeton University men’s basketball team reached the NCAA Tournament “sweet 16” round for the first time in 50 years, I as an interested alum watched them play on national television and noticed an Asian player on … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Sports
Tagged basketball, Jeremy Lin, Princeton, Princeton University, Xavian Lee
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Admissions Discrimination Investigation Against Harvard and Princeton Closed After Complaint Withdrawn
An investigation into whether Harvard and Princeton’s admissions discriminate against Asian Americans has been dropped after the complaint by an Indian American student in California was withdrawn. The student and his family have not said why the complaints were withdrawn. … Continue reading
Posted in (simple), Discrimination, Education
Tagged college admissions, Harvard, Jian Li, Princeton
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U.S. Education Department Investigating Harvard and Princeton for Discrimination against APAs
An Indian American student has triggered an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights into discrimination by Harvard and Princeton University against Asian Americans. Studies from Princeton itself conclude that Asian Americans need higher test scores … Continue reading
Posted in (simple), Discrimination, Education
Tagged college admissions, Harvard, Princeton
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Racism: There’s No “Reverse” About It
Hyphen’s recent blog post about Princeton University’s “Reverse Racism” was amusing to me, especially since the terminology was used incorrectly — it’s not reverse racism, it’s just racism. (Especially ironic since I learned this after I moved to the South.) … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Observations
Tagged Princeton, racism, reverse racism, 白人看不懂
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