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When James J. Pak '88 thought about his plans after graduation, he considered applying for a job in investment banking. But because of the recent stock market crash, Pak says he will definitely not go into investment banking...
Successful Asian-American students commonly credit the influence of parents who are determined that their children take full advantage of what the American educational system has to offer. For many parents, personal sacrifice is involved. Daniel Pak, an 18-year-old from Dallas entering Harvard next month, shines in everything he does, from math to violin. His brother Tony, 20, is studying physics at M.I.T. Their parents had such colleges in mind when they moved to the U.S. in 1970. The boys' father gave up his career as a professor of German literature in South Korea. Unable...
...Smith trustees voted to divest immediately from corporations that have not signed the Sullivan Principles. The move would affect two or three corporations, less than one percent, or $1.9 million, of the school's total endowment fund of $207 million, according to Suzinne Pak, a senior and chairwoman of the student-faculty Ethical Investment Committee...
...Pak said the trustees voted to retain stock in corporations adhering to the Sullivan Principles but to divest from banks lending money to South Africa. She said the school will also increase its current number of scholarships to South African non-whites from two to four...
...committee, as well as the entire student campus, is very disappointed at the response of the trustees," said Ms. Pak, referring to students demanding total divestment...