ASIAN-AMERICAN STUDENT NUMBERS CONTINUE TO GROW.Byline: Sharline Chiang Daily News Staff Writer When is a minority not really a minority? When the minority is an Asian-American student admitted into UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX or another University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). campus. While other ethnic minority students saw admissions to UCLA and UC Berkeley tumble this year under Prop. 209, the number of Asian-Americans grew. At Berkeley, Asian-Americans make up 38 percent of the admissions pool, up from 35.5 percent last year. They account for 33 percent of the freshmen admitted to UCLA, up 1 percent from last year. To separate Asian-Americans from other minorities, campus administrators use the term ``under-represented minorities'' to refer to African-Americans, Latinos and American Indians American Indians: see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the; Natives, Middle American; Natives, North American; Natives, South American. . The term is getting plenty of mileage MILEAGE. A compensation allowed by law to officers, for their trouble and expenses in travelling on public business. 2. The mileage allowed to members of congress, is eight dollars for every twenty miles of estimated distance, by the most usual roads, from his in the post-affirmative action era. Meanwhile, as the number of Asian-Americans on campuses rise, educators and activists are fearing a backlash. ``I do think that UCLA is going to be 75 percent Asian, and I do think it's going to make some people uncomfortable,'' said John Orendorff, the director of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Unified School District's Native American Education Commission. UCLA law professor Jerry Kang said the key is to understand Asian-Americans voted overwhelmingly against Prop. 209 because they favor diversity. ``Even though they were constantly being told they could benefit by Prop. 209, they said race still matters,'' Kang said. Then there's the question of over-representation, some say. In 1990, Asian-Americans made up about 10 percent of the state's population. But students shrug off shrug v. shrugged, shrug·ging, shrugs v.tr. To raise (the shoulders), especially as a gesture of doubt, disdain, or indifference. v.intr. the concerns. ``I think everybody sees it as a given, just because there are so many already,'' said Vincent Chow, president of the UCLA Chinese Student Association. ``Actually, nobody's ever confronted me about it.'' Still, there a jokes floating around campus that poke See peek/poke. poke - The BASIC command to write a value to an absolute address. See peek. fun at the high numbers of Asian students. One goes, ``What does UCLA stands for?'' Answer: ``University of Caucasians Lost among Asians.'' While the swelling number of Asian-American students represents success for children of Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean families, Kang said Prop. 209 could hurt Thai, Hmong, Cambodians and Laotians. Typically more recent immigrants from lower income families, they remain under-represented in the UC system. ``They shouldn't be forgotten,'' said Kang, an adviser to UCLA's Asian American Studies This article has multiple issues: * It does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by citing reliable sources. * It needs to be expanded. Center. ``Everyone shouldn't assume that these are these are all super students that should succeed without question.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) Vincent Chow, president of the Chinese Students Association at UCLA, believes Asian-Americans are a fixture An article in the nature of Personal Property which has been so annexed to the realty that it is regarded as a part of the real property. That which is fixed or attached to something permanently as an appendage and is not removable. at the campus. Myung J. Chun/Daily News |
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