• “The UCSD Asian American Studies Committee has been very active over the last 4 years to ensure a program on the UCSD campus for Asian American history and culture. We’ve done presentations on campus, in the community and to Mavor O’Connor as well as-attended various statewide conferences, organized receptions and petition drives along with staff and faculty. This effort has been above and beyond our academic responsibility and we plan to continue our work to institutionalize an Asian American Studies program at UCSD.”
• “Enclosed you will find copies of petitions we’ve reproduced with over 400 signatures of students on campus and in California.”
• “… we demand – three tenured Asian American faculty and a minor Program in Asian American Studies.”

Source: Asian and Pacific Islander Student Alliance, ‘Asian and Pacific Islander Student Alliance’s Asian American Studies Committee Letter and Petition Signatures to Chancellor Atkinson.” 14 June 1988. University of California San Diego University Records, Special Collections, RSS 1000 B8 F6.