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...country's population, Asians have produced outstanding success stories: cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Midori; writers Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club) and Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men); Sonny Mehta, editor of the distinguished Knopf book- publishing house; and filmmaker Wayne Wang (Dim Sum). Consider also: Chang- Lin Tien, the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley; Paul Terasaki, a UCLA professor of surgery who developed tissue typing for organ transplants; and Vinod Khosla, one of the founding partners of the computer- workstation manufacturer Sun Microsystems...
...meantime, many shining examples of this minority in the golden land try to bear up under the occasional unwitting offense. Says Berkeley chancellor Tien, a first-generation Chinese American: "Just today I was walking on campus when someone saw me and asked, 'Are you from Japan?' I said, 'No, I'm your chancellor.' " With lines like that, the education of America...
...increase in student roles in setting racerelations agendas could come through open officehours with Epps specifically for such concerns,suggested Susan Y. Tien '93, a member of theMinority Student Alliance...
...want to let people at Harvard know that Columbus Day is not just a day of celebration," said Susan Tien '93, an Asian-American Association (AAA) representative...
...Berkeley police said Rosebud Abigail Denovo, 19, broke into the mansion of University of California chancellor Chang-Lin Tien intending to kill him. Part of a self-styled "People's Will Direct Action Committee," Denovo took part in protests over plans by the university and the city of Berkeley to build volleyball courts at People's Park, long a refuge of the homeless. She had a history of psychiatric treatment and was arrested last year for stashing explosives at a bivouac in the Berkeley hills...