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Mayor de Blasio is throwing in the towel but Richard Carranza, shown here at the ribbon cutting for a new elementary school in Jackson Heights in September, is not toning down his rhetoric about the need to dump the entrance exam for the city’s elite high schools.

Extreme Urgent: The Statute of Limitation of The Criminal Justice Proceeding Will Expire Soon For The Corruption Crimes, Which Framed Sherry Chen in The Falsified Espionage Case

It is the extreme urgent right now for Sherry Chen to follow with 42 U.S. House Reps for the criminal justice for herself, since the federal criminal code has the 7-year statute of limitation, it will expire soon in her case. After 7 years, Sherry Chen will no longer be able to pursue the criminal justice proceeding for the matter of her being framed with the falsified espionage charges.

source: Inside Higher Ed

Some issues are similar to those in Harvard case, but Chapel Hill's status as public university -- and some differing strategies -- could affect outcome of the case.

source: Commentary

This article is a second draft. I had originally set out to write an essay defending meritocracy in the United States. I was responding to New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, who had just proposed a two-pronged plan aimed at getting more African-American and Hispanic students into the city’s eight highly competitive elite public high schools. His proposal pivots on the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT), which is the sole means these institutions have to grant entry to students.

Falsely charging against Chinese-Americans is not rare in this country, especially for the first generation of Chinese immigrants. Without sufficient legal support and network, when facing with unfair charges, they lack the power to fight back, even though they have good educational background and good economic status. Yongping Zhou is one of them who have spent years on their lawsuits that have totally changed their life.

source: The Harvard Crimson

Seth P. Waxman '73 and William F. Lee '72 speak to members of the press outside John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse immediately following the conclusion of the three-week-long Harvard admissions trial. Photo: Amy Y. Li

The high-stakes and high-profile Harvard admissions trial may stretch well into 2019, per new details announced in a Wednesday court order.

The trial, the latest development in a four-year-old lawsuit brought by anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions, kicked off in a Boston courthouse on Oct. 15 and wrapped up three weeks later on Nov. 2. But it's not entirely over —

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# Chinese Elites appeal Rep Judy Chu and Ted Lieu to act with the duties as U.S. House Reps

FBI chief Welch’s obstruction of justice in Zhou’s case, Directors of American Chinese appeal U.S. Rep Ted Lieu and Judy Chu to send Yongping Zhou’s case to U.S. Congress Judiciary Committee

智斗FBI腐败分局长Welch，众侨领呼吁刘云平和赵美心议员递交周永平案件给国会司法委员会

In Yongping Zhou’s case, there were two corruption crime cases happened in Marion County of Indiana State and in FBI field office of Indianapolis.

The first corruption crime of Marion County of Indiana happened on the 4th floor of City County Building of Indianapolis on May 18, 2005, he was attacked by bailiff Belanger without a reason. Later, Marion City County mayor and sheriff hid the surveillance footage of this crime scene by replying the court’s subpoenas with their perjury as FBI agent Robert found and concluded, Belanger and several officers conspired to make the false accusation upon Mr. Zhou with 5 falsified charges. It was outrageous, two law professors Henry Karlson and Joel Schumm helped Mr. Zhou for 3 years in order to defeat the horrible false accusation. Finally, the jury gave the justice to Mr. Zhou in the trial, although Belanger and 5 officers made up their contradicted perjury claims to cheat the jury in order to frame up Mr. Zhou.

source: The Unz Review

This last week trial began in Boston federal court for the current lawsuit in which a collection of Asian-American organizations are charging Harvard University with racial discrimination in its college admissions policies. The New York Times, our national newspaper of record, has been providing almost daily coverage to developments in the case, with the stories sometimes reaching the front page.

Last Sunday, just before the legal proceedings began, the Times ran a major article explaining the general background of the controversy, and I was very pleased to see that my own past research was cited as an important factor sparking the lawsuit, with the reporter even including a direct link to my 26,000 word 2012 cover-story “The Myth of American Meritocracy,” which had provided strong quantitative evidence of anti-Asian racial quotas. Economic historian Niall Ferguson, long one of Harvard’s most prominent professors but recently decamped to Stanford, similarly noted the role of my research in his column for the London Sunday Times.

source: Politico.com

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For years, reporters have been trying to get elite universities to be more transparent about their admissions process. It might take a court to pry it all open — with unforeseen consequences.

source: the Federalist

When privileged Asian-Americans argue race-based discrimination is acceptable, they allow themselves to be used as a wedge group.

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The long-awaited Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) lawsuit against Harvard University went to trial in Boston’s federal court on Oct. 15. This is a case filed by a group of Asian students and parents alleging Harvard’s undergraduate admissions process intentionally discriminates against Asian-Americans, by limiting the number of Asian-American students who are admitted in order to increase admission of less-qualified students of other races.

Back in June, both sides filed their findings and motions to the federal court in Boston. SFFA hired Duke University economist Peter Arcidiacono to perform an analysis based on data extracted from the records of more than 160,000 students who applied for admission over six cycles from 2000 to 2015.

Arcidiacono found that, despite Asian American students scoring higher than students of any other racial or ethnic group on academics, extracurriculars, and even alumni interviews, Harvard admission office always “rated Asian-American applicants lower than others on traits like ‘positive personality,’” likability, courage, kindness and being “widely respected … often without even meeting them.”

Calls for Admission Reviews at All New York Colleges and Universities that Receive Tax Dollars.

New York-October. 18: Shocking testimony revealing that Harvard University discriminates against Americans of Asian descent in its admission policies demands that all New York colleges and universities receiving public dollars immediately reveal if such practices are occurring here, New York gubernatorial Marc Molinaro today said.

Harvard admitted this week that Americans of Asian descent are required to score higher on SAT scores than Americans of other ethnic backgrounds in order to be considered for admission.

“What’s been happening at Harvard, and other universities possibly, is rank discrimination and that’s wrong

source: Fox News

# Trial reveals Harvard has different SAT standards for each race

Harvard University's dean of admissions has testified the Ivy League school applies different SAT score standards to prospective students based on factors such as race, but insisted the practice is not discriminatory.

Students for Fair Admissions, a group headed by legal strategist Edward Blum, sued Harvard in 2014 claiming Asian-Americans, who have the highest academic records, unfairly receive the lowest admission rate at the elite school.

Regardless of the outcome of the three-week, non-jury trial in Boston that began Monday, the lawsuit involving affirmative action and backed by the Trump administration is expected to reach the Supreme Court.

William Fitzsimmons, the 30-year dean of admissions, who oversees the screening process of about 40,000 applicants and narrows them down to 2,000 acceptance letters that are handed out each year, testified that African-Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanic high schoolers with mid-range SAT scores out of a possible 1600 combined math and verbal, are sent recruitment letters with a score as low as 1100, whereas Asian-Americans need to score at least 250 points higher – 1350 for women and 1380 for men.

“That’s race discrimination, plain and simple,” argued John Hughes, a lawyer for SFFA.

“It is not,” Fitzsimmons shot back, adding that the school targets certain groups to “break the cycle” and convince students who normally wouldn’t consider applying to the Ivy League school.

Supporters attend the "Rally for the American Dream - Equal Education Rights for All," ahead of the start of the trial in a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian-American applicants, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., October 14, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RC17E56B19E0

He said Harvard will admit white or unknown students with SAT scores as low as 1310 from states with more sparse populations, but not Asian-American students in the same area with similar scores.

source: Wall Street Journal

Asian-Americans would comprise 43% of the freshman class if admission hinged solely on academics

BOSTON—Were admission to Harvard based solely on academic merit, Asian-Americans would comprise 43% of the freshman class, while African-Americans would make up less than 1%, according to an internal Harvard report discussed at a trial here Wednesday.

Lawyers representing a nonprofit that has sued the school alleging intentional discrimination against Asian-American applicants dug deep into the internal 2013 study in court. In the process, they highlighted whether some criteria Harvard uses to assess candidates put Asian-American candidates at a disadvantage and how little the admissions dean did with the data when he received the report five years ago.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs will decide after the three-week trial whether Harvard’s admissions practices violate federal civil-rights law.

The internal study, conducted by Harvard’s Office of Institutional Research and labeled as preliminary, simulated what the admitted class would look like depending on which factors Harvard’s admissions office considered. The upshot: Asian-Americans fared best when the class was crafted based on academics alone.

The share of Asian-Americans shrinks to 31.4% when recruited athletes and the children of Harvard graduates are factored in.

source: The New York Times

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Copley Square in Boston on Sunday to protest Harvard’s admissions practices. A trial begins on Monday that will examine whether the university discriminates against Asian-American applicants.CreditCreditKayana Szymczak for The New York Times

BOSTON — Hundreds of demonstrators descended on Copley Square in Boston on Sunday to protest Harvard’s admissions practices, some carrying signs that read: “I Am Asian-American. I Have a Dream Too.”

At the same time, about a hundred counterprotesters, many of them Harvard students or employees, marched through Cambridge, Mass. Their signs read: “Asians Will Not Be Tools for Your White Supremacy.”

source: The Washington Post

Demonstrators against Harvard University's admission process hold signs and American flags during a protest at Copley Square in Boston, on Sunday. Photographer: Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg News (Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg)

BOSTON — Lee Cheng, son of a librarian and a bookkeeper from China, graduated a quarter-century ago from Harvard University with a life story that represents an immigrant version of the American Dream.

source: The Washington Post

Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William board of supervisors and Republican candidate for Senate from Virginia. (Mike Morones/Free Lance-Star/AP)

Virginia Republican Corey A. Stewart courted Asian American voters in his struggling Senate campaign Monday by vowing to champion efforts to stop selective universities and colleges fromusing race as a factor in admissions.

During a news conference in Falls Church, Stewart said that if he unseats Sen. Tim Kaine (D) on Nov. 6, he would introduce legislation prohibiting institutions of higher learning from considering a student’s race if those schools receive federal money.

Justice Department accuses Harvard of racial bias

“I don’t think that anybody should be punished because of their race,” said Stewart, surrounded by about 20 mostly Vietnamese supporters inside the Eden Center, a Vietnamese American mall in Falls Church. “We know that quotas are illegal under the Constitution.”

source: Quillette

On July 3, the Trump administration rescinded the Obama approach to race-based college admissions. This returns the U.S. to the philosophy of George W. Bush’s White House, which argued that race should not be a significant factor. The Trump initiative may have no immediate impact since the Supreme Court upheld race-based admissions policies in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin in 2016. But an impact is surely coming. Consider that Justice Scalia died before he could vote against affirmative action in the Fisher case. Now Justice Kennedy is retiring and Trump’s Supreme Court will certainly tilt against the policy with dissenters like Justices Roberts, Thomas, and Alito. Previously, Justice Thomas asserted that, “a State’s use of race in higher education admissions decisions is categorically prohibited by the Equal Protection Clause.”

source: The Harvard Crimson

Photo: Isabella Aslarus

Asians may be called the “model minority,” but it doesn’t seem like we’re actually wanted in schools. We are implicitly accused of taking up too many spots in elite New York City high schools, so the mayor’s new plan proposes to scrap the admissions exam in favor of less objective criteria. At the same time, we are fighting elite universities like Harvard in court over charges of unfair discrimination.

source: The Daily Sigal

In 2015, the nonprofit group Students for Fair Admission filed a lawsuit against Harvard University that alleged Harvard directly discriminates against Asian-American applicants during the university’s top-secret admissions process. On Friday, documents previously reserved for attorneys’ eyes only were made public, providing substantial evidence of Harvard’s discriminatory practices.

Center for Equal Opportunity

Linda Chavez, Chairman Roger Clegg, President & General Counsel 7700 Leesburg Pike, Suite 231 Falls Church, VA 22043 Phone 703-442-0066 Fax 703-442-0449 www.ceousa.org

# Executive Summary

Asian Americans are “overrepresented” in certain elite schools relative to their numbers in the U.S. population. In pursuit of racial and ethnic diversity, these schools will admit some Asian American applicants but not as many as their academic qualifications would justify. As a case study, I examine three private universities and Asian American enrollment in those universities over time.

No “Ceiling” on Asian Americans at Caltech But One at MIT and Harvard

• Caltech has no affirmative action. The number of Asian American undergraduates has increased, quite steeply since 2000. They make up more than 40% of Caltech students today.

• MIT uses race as a factor in admissions, but not legacy connections. The rise in number of Asian Americans at MIT is halted in the 1990s. Peaking at 29%, the percentage of Asian Americans at MIT has stalled at around 26%.

• At Harvard, Asian Americans as a percentage of all undergraduates sharply increased to 21%, then significantly dropped and has stayed at roughly 17%. Harvard uses race as a factor in admissions, along with legacy connections.

May 15, 2018 Mr. Bill Valdez, President Senior Executives Association 77 K Street N.E., Suite 2600 Washington, DC 20002

Dear Mr. Valdez,

I write to call your attention to a recent Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) decision (Docket Number CH-0752-17-0028-I-1)[^1]. MSPB ruled overwhelmingly in favor of the appellant, Sherry Chen, against the Department of Commerce (DOC), where Ms. Laura Furgione was the proposing official to terminate Ms. Chen’s employment at the National Weather Service (NWS).

The stated core value for the Senior Executives Association (SEA) is "a passion for public service leadership exhibiting the highest standards of integrity, professional excellence, and accountability."

source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Chinese students pore over pamphlets and paperwork at a recruitment event for international colleges in Beijing.

A major clash between China and the United States is inevitable. At least, that’s what one would think from reading the Western press: China is investing heavily in cutting-edge technology, engaging in territorial expansion in the South China Sea, and including thinly veiled references to the United States in national strategic plans.

U.S. policy makers are also adopting an adversarial stance, as when the FBI director Christopher Wray commented before Congress that students from China studying in America could pose a national security risk.

Indeed, given China’s expressed goal of technological leadership, having scores of students come to the United States to study seems like an obvious part of its plan. But Wray’s comment starts with an assumption that Chinese individuals are a monolithic force, moving in lockstep with the Chinese government.

That assumption, however, is misguided.

Source: Committee of 100

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Contact: Charlotte Li, Director of Policy media@committee100.org or 212-371-6565

(New York, NY, April 26, 2018) – Sherry Chen, a naturalized citizen of the United States, has won in her lengthy struggle against the federal government to restore her good name. An award winning civil servant whose work predicting floods saved American lives, Chen was wrongly accused of crimes such as espionage, on behalf of China. In a criminal case that attracted nationwide attention including front-page coverage in the New York Times (here and here) and a profile on the 60 Minutestelevision show, she had already prevailed — prosecutors walked away from all charges against her, meaning she was and is as innocent as anyone else protected by our ideals of due process. Yet the National Weather Service terminated her from employment doing the job she loved at its offices near Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Connecticut legislature held a March 8 hearing on Senate Bill 359, an act that called for banning ethnic subgroup data disaggregation in the Connecticut education system. As a Ph.D. candidate in Social Policy who studies mental health and trauma,  I was invited by the bill’s supporters to testify on the damage a potential data collection program would impose on students, parents and teachers.

On March 17th, the meeting for organizing Rally to Unite for Peace & Justice at Philadelphia Independence Square was held at Golden Imperial Palace located in New York City. The meeting was hosted by Bihong Guan, the chairman of executive council of Greater Philadelphia Chinese Association of Protecting Rights.

In a recent Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, FBI director Christopher Wray said that Chinese spies are spreading throughout the United States as part of a “whole-of-society” threat. He claimed that every Chinese person is a suspected spy regardless of their affiliation with Chinese government and called for a whole-of-society response from Americans, according to a Feb. 13 Business Insider article.  He also said that the Chinese intelligence employs nontraditional collectors such as professors, scientists and students. They collected information not only in major cities but also small ones across basically every discipline.

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ASIAN** PACIFIC AMERICAN ETHNIC DATA DISAGGREGATION REGISTRY OPPOSITION PRESS **CONFERENCE

by Connecticut General Assembly

 

Hundreds of Asian Pacific Americans (APA) are expected to be the CT State Capitol to support SB 359 “AN ACT PROHIBITING THE DISAGGREGATION OF STUDENT DATA BY ETHNIC SUBGROUPS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL” INFORMATION

SYSTEM” during Education Committee public hearing on March 8th, 2018.

“Everybody hates it [child porn]. You can't go wrong investigating and getting a conviction in these cases. It's one of the mom-and-apple-pie issues that everybody wants to get a piece of." - Rick Lougee, a Tucson defense lawyer who specializes in sex-crime cases. When every innocent internet user would be one part of “mom-and-apple-pie” above, the public deserves the alert that a new cybersecurity threat looms in the Internet age.

Contact: Mr. Bihong Guan

Greater Philadelphia Chinese Association Of Protecting Rights

Address: 1644 Bridge St, Philadelphia, PA 19124

TEL: 267-246-9513, 484-373-1579

Email: bguan369@yahoo.com

# Community Action Alert!

 

Voice Your Concern with FBI Director Wray’s Remarks on Chinese Students, Scientists and Professors as National Security Threat

 

Author: APAPA (Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association)

"On November 1, 2017, Weiwu Zhao was wrongly convicted of “knowingly possessing” and “knowingly disseminating” the 14 digital child porn files by the jurors in Northampton County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania. Mr. Zhao stated he has NEVER downloaded, uploaded, saved, copied and viewed any child porn files, he has NEVER known any of the alleged 14 child porn files in the target PC tower, and he has NEVER known when and who downloaded, uploaded, saved, copied and viewed any of the alleged 14 child porn files in the target PC tower."

To support this 77 years old Chinese immigrant, Weiwu Zhao, please contact:

Email:  forpajustice@gmail.com

Phone:  +1 484-373-1579

 

The following article is about the details of Weiwu Zhao's case:

• Chinese American Jin Zhong experienced biased treatment by the lawyers he hired.

• He's taken TEN years to deal with this legal conflict.

• Let's hear his story here. The voice of a Chinese American who couldn't express himself in 10 years!

• **Jin Zhong: "I need a good and reliable lawyer!" **

• Jin Zhong's phone number: +1 _610  570 5349  _**Email : **jinfzhong99@gmail.com

• More info about the case: https://tongshing.wordpress.com/

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The opponents of MA Bill H.3361 poured into the largest public hearing room, the Gardner Auditorium, in the MA state house.

Note: this article originally appeared here on the Sharon Chinese Association website on 2/2/2018.

Editor:

• Chinese-American attendees asked the committee to record the whole public hearing for H3361 to make sure the hearing was fair, but didn't get a clear response.

• The staff at the hearing lied that the recording stopped at 6:00pm, not lasted to 9:20pm when the hearing officially ended.

• On January 31, Chinese-Americans complained on social media that the hearing was not fair, since the recording didn't cover the whole thing.

• On February 2,  the committee showed the whole recording under the pressure from the Chinese community, which meant that keeping fighting worked!

Since I was little, I've been asked, "Would you rather have been born a man?" Before I graduated from the college, I answered "Yes" because I would feel safer if I had a strong body. After I started to work, I changed to say "no", telling people, "Men are typically more financially stressed than women."

Many years later, I realized that women will be happier in a civilized society. Children's society is relatively less civilized than the adults' one. Having a strong body can protect me from bullying. As I stepped into the adults' world, people behave under the rules, so as long as the society is in order, enjoy being a woman.