Recently, Berkeley revealed that "in the beginning of the 80's it was harder for people of Asian descent to be admitted than for Caucasians." Led by Nobel Prize winning chemistry professor Yuan T. Lee and Asian Studies professor Wang Ling-chih, students and faculty of Asian descent immediately set out to get to the bottom of things.
近年來柏克萊傳出「八○年代初期，亞裔申請入柏克萊就學比白人困難」情事，以諾貝爾獎得主、物理系教授李遠哲和東亞所教授王靈智為首的亞裔老師、學生，立刻群起追根究柢。