Some 45 years ago, I was a young Asian American college student in California, who worked with Chicano and Black students statewide to protest the first major attack on minority admissions. This grew out of a lawsuit by a rejected white applicant to UC Davis named Allan Bakke, who charged that he had suffered “reverse discrimination.”  In 1978, so many Asian American college students realized that an attack on affirmative admissions programs would be a setback for Asian Americans that […]