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...controversial comic strip inspired Asian-American students to form alliances with groups like BSA and RAZA to voice their concerns. The Asian American Association (AAA) led the effort to alter The Crimson's "The Misanthropic Mister Chu," authored by Andrew Haiwen Chu '02 and Alexis G. Burgess '02, arguing that the strip reinforces stereotypes about Asians...
...early teens in 1997 when it published one book set in a juvenile-detention facility (Adam Rapp's The Buffalo Tree) and another in which a 13-year-old sleeps with her mother's boss (Brock Cole's The Facts Speak for Themselves). They were followed by Melvin Burgess's even more graphic Smack, a British novel imported by Henry Holt, which details a middle-class 15-year-old's descent into the world of heroin addiction and prostitution...
...foot 10, 245-pound Burgess saw limited action backing up national player of the year Elton Brand last season, averaging 5.4 points and 3.9 rebounds...
...Mormon, Burgess had talked late in the season about possibly leaving the team to go on a two-year church mission. A statement released by the school did not address the issue...
...Burgess is the third Blue Devil to leave the team in the past two weeks. Fellow sophomores Brand and William Avery had announced their intentions to enter the 1999 NBA draft...