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Nancy Chen ’13, treasurer of Class Clowns, had a harder time choosing. She considered “Kiki,” but thought better of it. “Will people think that’s my real name? Because it sounds Asian,” she said...
Numerous studies show that Asians and Asian Americans are comparatively politically inactive, even when they are given the opportunity to participate in government. Here in the United States, there are 15.5 million Asian Americans, but you rarely hear about advocacy groups that target Asian-American issues or the influence of the Asian Pacific American Caucus. In fact, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up almost five percent of the U.S. population, but there are only eight members in the House of Representatives and the Senate of that ethnic group. Eight out of 535 is just 1.5 percent...
...agreement with South Korea, which was originally signed in 1975, had to be renegotiated last year after much of the funds for that program—which was intended to support professors—went unused because the University had no plans to endow new professorships in the East Asian Studies department...
Stryon, who started out as a poet, said she first became interested in human rights after an Afro-Asian writers’ convention in Russia and then joined Amnesty International...
...removed him from power guaranteed safety for him and his family. But the nation's interim government said Bakiyev, who fled the capital on April 7, must either face trial or go into exile alone and leave behind family members who served in his regime. The highly unstable Central Asian country is home to an airbase that serves as a main transit point for U.S. troops and supplies into Afghanistan...