In 2004, former AsianWeek columnist Frank H. Wu became the ninth dean of the WSU Law School . He is profiled here. For ten years before, he taught at Howard University as the only Asian American on the faculty of an African American school. Wu is the author of a landmark book, Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. "Asian Americans have to throw off the image that others have created for us, the script that they've written for us to follow," Wu said. Some say Wu may be Asian America's leading public intellectual.