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...About 1,300 of the approximately 1,600 members of the Class of 2005 bought a yearbook, according to Business Manager Michelle C. Yang ’07. And the interest in the publication isn’t limited to graduating seniors. Steinert says that Conan O’Brien ’85 has ordered five extra yearbooks over the years, because his “always get destroyed...
Many children of the Asian immigrants who came over in the 1960s and 1970s say they didn't find that kind of self-affirmation until, like Fareha Ahmed, they got to college. Raymond Yang was one of only three Asians in a class of 420 at his high school in East Northport, N.Y. "I always felt like I was between worlds, especially in high school," says Yang, 28, whose parents are Chinese. That interim place felt like his and his alone?until he got to Brown University. When Yang was a freshman in 1995, there were 854 other Asian Americans...
Such subject changes seem to be a trademark of the paintings produced by the class. Jessica Yang ’08 has shifted her focus from painting places to exploring friendships between individuals in works like a canvas of her and her friend on a snowy Chicago street...
...scroll. “Dragons in the West are considered evil, whereas in Asia they are thought of as benevolent and even auspicious,” says Mowry. These pieces illustrate Asian views of the dragon, also an emblem of masculinity, known in China as the “yang.” The mythical phoenix is symbolic of the feminine component of the world, or the “yin.” A jade vase with nephrite yellow and brown markings—a wine vessel from the early eighteenth century—portrays the yin and yang...
...felt good and gratified the whole time was a Steamroller-ish mega-event: Prince, live at the Allstate Arena in summer 2004. But those things aren’t even guarantees—the one hip-hop mega event show I ever went to (J-Kwon and the Ying-Yang Twins were there!) was really slow, the crowd didn’t dance and I paid 30 bucks.Virtually every concert I can look back upon with “pride” is a concert that allows me to say, “well, it was fun enough, but more...