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California Professor Urges Asian American Scientists to Protest, Shun DOE.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2000 by Zach, Elizabeth

Apr. 28--LIVERMORE, Calif.--Asian American scientists should not apply for jobs at the national labs as a protest to racial profiling and discrimination, a UC-Berkeley professor told Lawrence Livermore Laboratory employees Thursday

L. Ling-chi Wang, head of the university's Department of Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies, is urging scientists to "send a message" to the Department of Energy. He said DOE has targeted Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwanese scientist formerly at Los Alamos (N.M.) National Laboratory accused of mishandling classified data.

"No one should apply for jobs in the Department of Energy," Wang told about 50 Livermore lab employees . "There is no reason anyone would want to subject themselves to the racial profiling."

Wang's...

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