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...river quality and storm water, played games and painted a colorful canvas mural. The groups didn't mingle much at first; a few self-conscious attempts to break the ice came unstuck. Four Holy Spirit boys sulked under a tree, offended that some Muslim girls had laughed at their Asian names. Some Malek Fahd girls were embarrassed by the physical intimacy between Christian boys and girls. In their hijabs and long-sleeved shirts, the Muslim girls must be feeling the heat. "No sir, I'm used to it," says a beaming 13-year-old. She chats about professional wrestling...
Harvard is not a meritocracy. Not only do the costs of this system weigh disproportionately upon Asian Americans, the considerations prioritized above merit also come at the expense of true diversity beyond racial tokenism: a diversity of socioeconomic background and representation from within racial groups...
Harvard, for better or worse, would not be Harvard without legacies, athletes, and underrepresented minorities, considerations that complicate an already not-so-meritocratic process. Recent discussions regarding the lower acceptance rate for apparently more qualified Asian American applicants have revealed an ugly bias against Asian Americans at Ivy League admissions offices. According to Jerome Karabel’s book “The Chosen,” this bias has been prevalent since the 1980s...
...Kong's economy is thriving, with GDP predicted to grow by an impressive 6.5% this year. But concern is mounting that the city's pollution woes are ruining its attraction as a place to live and work. One fear is that multinational firms that have made Hong Kong their Asian base will increasingly decamp for cleaner locales-particularly Singapore, dubbed the best city for Asian expatriates in a recent quality-of-life survey by human-resources consultant ECA International. Hong Kong dropped from 20th to 32nd in the study, largely due to pollution...
...attempt to recruit bone marrow donors from across the University. The initiative focuses particularly on people from ethnic minorities since minority patients are less likely to find a match, according to HBMI co-chair Julie Goswami ’08. The effort involves the Harvard Cancer Society, Harvard South Asian Association, Harvard Asian American Association, Asian American Brotherhood, Black Students’ Association, and Fuerza Latina, Goswami said. The drive is also receiving logistical help from two organizations affiliated with the National Marrow Donor Program: the South Asian Marrow Association of Recruiters (SAMAR) and Matchpia, which also targets South Asian...