Vivian Wu
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Rainbow Agenda
In 1987 Vivian Wu was at Stanford, and active in the Asian American Students Association and the Rainbow Agenda.[1]
LRS
In 1989 Vivian Wu, was a contributor to League of Revolutionary Struggles' Unity.
Unity
In 1990 Vivian Wu, Asian American Caucus MIT, East Coast Asian Student Union, contributed to the April 16 issue of Unity, newspaper of the League of Revolutionary Struggle.
SUN
In October 1989, and November 1990 Vivian Wu was a member of the Student Unity Network.[2]
MIT
Arthur Hu '80 has filed a formal complaint with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights against the University of California at Berkeley for discriminating against Asian-Americans. Hu, an activist against affirmative action in university admissions, charged the school with using "quotas and differential admissions standards" to turn away Asian-American students in order to implement affirmative action.
Because schools would rather not reduce the number of white students, he said, and because they have a limited number of spaces in each class, they turn away qualified Asian-Americans to make room for underrepresented minorities.
Many Asian-Americans in the MIT community oppose Hu. "Affirmative action does not have to conflict with the `merit-based' plans touted by its opponents," said Vivian Wu, a research fellow with the Community Fellows Program in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The solution lies in increasing student enrollment across all racial groups, she stressed. Moreover, Asian-Americans have benefited from affirmative action, according to Wu, who is also a member of the newly formed Asian-American Caucus at MIT.[3]
"A call to build an organization for the 1990s and beyond"
Unity, January 28 1991, issued a statement "A call to build an organization for the 1990s and beyond" on pages 4 to 6.
This group was a split in the League of Revolutionary Struggle which soon became the Unity Organizing Committee.
Those listed as supporters of the call included Vivian Wu, U Mass/Boston, East Coast Asian Student Union, Boston. .