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...Professor Peter N. Kiang '80 of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, who also spoke at the forum, said that many of the criteria used to evaluate the success of Asian-Americans are misleading. Supposedly objective measures of success, such as median family income, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and grades can give a mistaken impression of the true position of Asians, he said...
Such broad categorization ignores a "bipolar" distribution of income and status among nationalities and language groups classified as "Asian-Americans," as well as between those of different education levels, Kiang said. Generalizations about Asian-American professional success can also obscure political or social barriers, he said...
During the workshop, entitled "Are weminorities?" Professor of Education and SocialStructure Nathan Glazer and Peter N. Kiang, aprofessor at the University of Massachusetts atBoston. will offer opposing viewpoints onaffirmative action...
...Asian-American activists, one of the most serious signs of discrimination is the admissions quotas they believe leading universities have established. "If you are an Asian-American student applying to Harvard, you have the lowest chance of getting in," says Peter Kiang, who teaches Asian-American studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. John Bunzel, a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford, says he has found indications that Stanford, Harvard, Princeton and Brown discriminate against Asian Americans in their admissions policy...
...extent that it serves as a comprehensive sort of Iayman's guide to federal violations of academic freedom, it will be useful," said Yale University General Coursed Lindsey C. Kiang, who had not yet seen the report...