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This year’s accepted class contains slightly more students who self-identify as Asian-American and African-American—18.2 percent and 11.3 percent, respectively—while the portion of students that identifies as Latino dropped marginally, from 10.6 percent last year to 10.3 percent this year...
...Brown University South Asian Students Association (SASA) recently produced a series of videos promoting their 2010 event, Nashaa. All three of the videos, modeled after Apple's "Mac vs. PC" commericials, feature a Brown student and a "Harvard student" having conversations about school and extra-curriculars. Here are some highlights...
...seafood temple, find bluefin boring. "We have basically never served tuna here since the day we opened," the chef says. "Aside from the sustainability issues, it's just so overused. You see it everywhere from the Cheesecake Factory to, well, everywhere. The same tuna with the same sweet-spicy Asian marinade. Are you kidding me? Can we not get any more original than that?" (See pictures of what makes you eat more food...
...comprehensive tally of Hispanics for purposes of federal aid and civil rights protections. But many Hispanics are nonetheless irked when they go to the next section and find, yet again, that they're asked to identify themselves racially as white or black. (The other racial designations are Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander...
...this should prod the Census Bureau to simplify things for future counts. The Hispanic-origins and race sections should be combined into one, less confusing section that asks folks what ethnic and/or racial group they belong to: white, black, Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander or Hispanic. It should (as it already does for some groups on the form) provide space for designating subgroups - like Arabs, for example. (Many Jamaican- and Bahamian-Americans also feel the Census should list their Caribbean origins as a black subgroup.) And it should make clear that respondents can check more than one group. That matters...