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...Earlier this month, controversy boiled at Dartmouth concerningits newly appointed president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim. An anonymous e-mail referred to Dr. Kim as a “Chinaman” and even went so far as to claim that “Dartmouth is America, not Panda Garden Rice Village Restaurant.” A few days later, xenophobic comments on the Crimson’s website began to circulate over many email lists: “Asians and Indians are not creative and are basically just cookie cutter academic grunts...
...snatch from extinction's grasp a critter so reclusive it's an afterthought for government funding when compared with A-list animals like the panda? Answer: Do what sports teams have done with their stadiums. Brand the wombat with a corporate logo...
...heritage. “Unless ‘Jim Yong Kim’ means ‘I love Freedom’ in Chinese, I don’t want anything to do with him,” the e-mail stated. “Dartmouth is America, not Panda Garden Rice Village Restaurant.” The e-mail generated an immediate backlash from both students and faculty at Harvard and Dartmouth. Kisuh Jung, a sophomore in Dartmouth’s Asian Christian fellowship, said that students were outraged when the e-mail went...
Unless "Jim Yong Kim" means "I love Freedom" in Chinese, I don't want anything to do with him. Dartmouth is America, not Panda Garden Rice Village Restaurant...
That brings us to a truism about online video: it rewards brevity and scatters attention. That's true to an extent. Five to seven minutes seem to be the sweet spot for a webisode; "Baby Panda Sneezes" loses its magic after about 11 seconds. But a funny thing happened in my cable-free week: I found myself paying closer attention to the TV shows I watched online...