Word: chen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steven J. Chen '98-'99, who chose to bring along Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree" when he came to college rather than let the children's classic gather dust at home...
...touching story about a tree that gives everything to a child, including shade and fruit," Chen said. "When the child becomes an old man all he has left is a stump. He says to the tree `I've taken everything from you.' The tree replies, `You can still use me.' The last thing the tree gives the weak old man is a seat to sit down...
However, it is difficult to escape the sleaze associated with mere mention of a massage parlor. Massage possesses a certain mystique that shrouds it in mystery for most. "My parents think it's weird," organizer Lesley L. Chen '98 concedes, "but most people think it's pretty cool. It's therapeutic and relaxing, but the connotations out there are horrendous...
Ernetta begins by teaching the class how to properly undress, with what organizer Chen calls "a cool draping process." Next to the wall, one partner holds up a large sheet while the other removes her shirt behind it, and then wraps herself in the sheet so that nothing is exposed. Ernetta explains that "we want to respect people," and as such "no cleavage or gluteocleft shows...
Does this mean that Jian Wan Chen's status as an Asian sister is negligible when weighed against the call to stand in solidarity with "the race," a call that implies and obscures the privileging of a particular gender? What about the Asian American lesbian and sweatshop workers: should they also subordinate their concerns and silence themselves in solidarity with "the race...