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Thang Diep, a senior Harvard who came from Vietnam as a child, talked about how to be successful.
Sally Chen, also a senior, has testified that she has counselor at her San Francisco high school had not read their Asian-American identity, because it was too familiar. The counselor had asked her not even to apply. She did anyway, and wrote about how to be an advocate and translator for her working class. She got in.
There was no testimony from rejected students. The names of the Asian-Americans represented by Students for Fair Admissions were redacted from the record, because they were worried about being harassed and reviled for their views, according to the leader of the group, Edward Blum.
Mr. Blum attended every day of the trial, sitting in the same spot in the middle of the second row. He spoke to him, when he shook hands with William Fitzsimmons, the Harvard admissions dean who testified in the trial.
In the end, the facts are hoping that the case will remain on the numbers, that the statistical details that might help concretize the often foggy nature of racial bias.
Harvard is hoping for a transcend verdict. Ruth Simmons, President of Brown and a Sharecropper's daughter who went to study Proust in France, argued in the final days of the trial what such a verdict could entail.
"Dr. Joseph Simmons said," I would say that we are bedeviled in society by enduring schisms, based on differences, political differences, cultural differences, and religious differences. "When we go back to our enclaves, enclaves of sameness, how are we going to get to the point where we can mediate these conflicts and have a peaceful society that advances?"
