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Other eruptions have occurred. In November 1991, the staff of the conservative journal Peninsula angered gays and their supporters with a 56-page indictment of homosexuality. Last March, Asian students protested when Junior Parents Weekend organizers initially left Asian-American speakers off three race-relations panels...
Chung's greatest virtue is her high Q rating, the annual measure of celebrities' celebrity and popularity. Her number may be skewed upward, however, by her singular recognizability: she is the only Asian-American TV star. While Chung is a decent newsreader, and CBS staff munchkins like her let's-order-a-pizza! perkiness, peers and former colleagues tend to be ungenerous. "Call Connie, ask what really interests her," says a fellow network anchor. "You'll get a blank screen." (I did. "I wish I could tell you," she replied. "What is a Connie Chung story? I'm hard...
...letter to administrators and to The Crimson, Joan R. Chen '95 and Haewon Hwang '95, co-presidents to the Asian-American Association, requested a meeting next fall with Epps who was appointed race relations co-ordinator for the College last spring and other administrator to discuss concerns about Epps' performance...
...offers no evidence for his pop sociology. The closest he comes is his observation that the Jewish and Asian-American populations at Harvard are larger than those in the general population. He takes this as evidence that education is "highly honored and valued" in those communities. This reasoning is problematic enrollment at Harvard is a faulty indicator of a person's and much less an entire culture's respect for education. For example, the black admits which choose not to matriculate here obviously do not lack drive--they were admitted--they lack the money and or the desire to come...
...implications of So's letter is that the high SAT scores attained by Asian-American students is proof that their culture values education. This is another example of his faulty reasoning. The first and second generation immigrant communities in American represent a small percentage of their respective races. The U.S. visa application process favors highly educated professionals and aggressive working class applicants. These people have a drive to succeed which they likely transmit to their children. There was no such selection process in order to become an American or West Indian slave. Seen in this light, higher academic achievement...