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...number of cases is expected to rise at an alarming rate. Epidemiologists predict that by 2025 the incidence in the U.S. will double. Annual treatment costs are projected to rise, from $132 billion to $192 billion in 2020--not counting inflation. Hardest hit will be certain ethnic groups--including African Americans and Native Americans, Hispanics and Asians--that for complicated reasons are more prone to the disorder...
Evolutionary biologists suspect that a predisposition toward diabetes developed among certain ethnic groups--such as Pima Indians or Americans of African descent--as a result of repeated, perhaps even recent, bouts of starvation. Those individuals who were better able to decrease energy expenditures during a famine survived and passed on the trait to their offspring. Unfortunately, that ability seems to cause insulin resistance when food is plentiful. In other words, says Dr. Peter Nathanielsz, director of the Center for Women's Health Research at New York University, "you come out into the world--at least the developed world--and there...
...Harvard, there have been no regular introductory courses focusing upon Asians in the United States. The main resource for Asian American studies is the annual Committee on Ethnic Studies booklet, which lists undergraduate courses relevant to studies of race and ethnicity. But the only academic outlet for students has consisted of the occasional course taught by a visiting professor. Also, the Courses of Instruction do not offer any classes that critically analyze Asian Americans in history, government, psychology or other fields. Even the rare acknowledgment of Asian Americans in the curriculum occurs as a cursory and reductive afterthought...
...address this problem, the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association and other students have launched an Asian American Studies Seminar Series, with the support of the Committee on Ethnic Studies. This series seeks to remedy the lack of basic knowledge at Harvard about the rich history and cultures of Asians in America. It will critically look at how Asian American studies has lived up to its original objectives of social change and the political empowerment of minority students and communities. Through acknowledgement of the experiences of these communities in the United States and in a global context, this program will also...
Currently, Asian American studies and ethnic studies programs flourish in colleges and universities across the country. Elite institutions such as Stanford, Columbia, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania have all started successful programs, mostly through student activism and initiative. It is about time that Harvard lives up to its reputation as one of the leading academic institutions in the United States and the world by establishing greater academic opportunities in Asian American studies and other ethnic studies, thereby recognizing the valuable contribution such courses would bring to undergraduate education...