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...conference was intended to promote and develop the idea of a Taiwanese identity, in light of our parents' identity as compared to our identity," Publicity Co-Director Alex L. Young '02 said...
...conference took its title from the first-generation status of most Taiwanese-American college students. The students' parents generally grew up in Taiwan, while the students themselves have grown up in America, Young said...
...raised awareness of the need for democracy in Taiwan," Young said. "He is blacklisted by the Taiwanese government, meaning that his relatives were harassed in Taiwan...
What is it about young adulthood that turns people on to smoking? The intoxicating freedom? The feeling of invincibility? The looming prospect of lung cancer? It may be none of the above, but according to a study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control, something is turning '90s college-age adults into smokers at a higher rate than their '80s counterparts. Despite success in some population groups, adult smoking rates in the 1990s have remained essentially static, thanks to large numbers of 18-to-24-year-olds who are picking up the habit. Between 1965 and 1990, the percentage...
...could be that government efforts to quell smoking are missing out on this susceptible segment of the population at the same time as the tobacco industry is homing in on them. Antismoking rhetoric is often aimed at young children and their parents, while cigarette makers, warned off their youngest consumers and such severely critized campaigns as the cartoonish Joe Camel, are now doubling their attempts to seduce the next age segment, young adults. A suggestion: Perhaps antismoking campaigns should be retooled to address kids in high school or just heading off to college. Otherwise it could be one heck...