Word: chan
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...next few days. In what is now being called the "Honor Roll Murder," Tay was brutally beaten by five other teenagers before he finally choked to death; three of the suspects, like Tay, were Asian Americans who were viewed as model kids and top students. The alleged mastermind, Robert Chan, 18, is expected to plead not guilty to murder charges this week. The four other defendants, Abraham Acosta, 16, Kirn Kim, 16, Mun Kang, 17, and Charles Choe, 17, have pleaded not guilty and will learn on Feb. 5 whether they, like Chan, will be tried as adults and eligible...
...five young men had come to suspect that Tay, whom they had only just met through mutual friends, was going to betray their robbery scheme and had thoroughly rehearsed their response. According to investigators, while Tay was looking into a metal box (it supposedly contained a gun), Chan motioned to Acosta to pick up one of two baseball bats resting against the wall. Acosta struck Tay in the head, while Chan picked up the other bat and began beating Tay on the head and body. Kang and Choe, waiting in the next room, heard Tay scream and ask, "What...
...Chan took Tay's wallet and, according to police, the boys later divided the money among themselves. They buried the body in a shallow grave they had dug under a rubber tree in the backyard. Kim wore gloves to drive Tay's car away from the house, and left it with the keys in the ignition in the largely working-class city of Compton, near Los Angeles. By 9 p.m., the Tays had begun to worry and called their son's friends looking for him. Just an hour later police found his stripped car in an alley. By this time...
Lowell House: Stephen Chan, Peter Flueckiger, Mark Moyar. Cabot House: Chih Cheung, Jason Fulman. Currier House: Carl Bergstrom, Jersey Chen, Frederick Tibayan, Jonathan Zinman. North House: David Carlton. Eliot House: Lawrence Carson, Jordan Ellenberg. Adams House: Weihsueh Chiu, David Friedman, John Weinstein. Mather House: Mark Kaplan, Kevin Wald. Leverett House: Richard Lin. Kirkland House: Edward Owen, Joshua Tucker, Gregory Weinhoff. Winthrop House: Scott Podolsky, Mark Saadeh...
According to a theory developed by Chinese-American authors Frank Chin and Jeffrey Paul Chan in a 1972 essay entitled "Racist Love," Asian-Americans have accepted a position as "honorary whites" in this country, as a privileged minority whose members are viewed more favorably than Blacks or Hispanics because they are the objects of white racist love, while Blacks and Hispanics are the objects of white racist hate. To serve as an object of white racist love is to act as a foil to troublesome minorities, particularly Blacks, in order to diminish the validity of calls for greater social equality...