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...Asian American community. Last week, a popular Dartmouth e-mail list-serve, “Generic Good Morning Message,” sent an e-mail to hundreds of students laced with racist remarks about the University’s newly appointed president, Harvard Medical School Professor Jim Yong Kim, who is South Korean. The Asian American Association’s recent marketing of the “Mr. Asian Sensation” male beauty pageant also stoked controversy on the Kirkland House e-mail list. Some students said that the pageant was offensive because it presumed that non-Asian...
Just four days after Harvard Medical School professor Jim Yong Kim was selected as the 17th president of Dartmouth College, a popular Dartmouth daily e-mail update sent a message to approximately 1,000 students about Kim’s appointment that was laden with derogatory racial slurs. The “Generic Good Morning Message” (GGMM)—a list-serve administered by six students that is not affiliated with the college—sent an e-mail about Kim that directly attacked his Asian origins. “Yesterday came the announcement that President...
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...
Harvard Medical School professor Jim Yong Kim was selected to be the 17th president of Dartmouth College yesterday, making him the first Asian American to ever lead an Ivy League institution...
...tragedies faced by one North Korean family, but its project would be more effective if the dramatic scenes and heavy symbolism were more subtle and more imaginative. “Crossing”—filmed in China, Korea, and Mongolia—tells the story of Yong-soo (Cha In-pyo), a former soccer player now living in poverty in a North Korean coal mining town with his pregnant wife and their young son. When Yong-soo’s wife—who is mysteriously left nameless—falls ill with tuberculosis, exacerbated by malnutrition, Yong...