Category Archives: Volume XI, Spring 2009
11 Years and Counting
Students share their thoughts on why SU has yet to create an Asian Studies program despite students’ decade-long request. Transnational Asian Studies, or CAS 200, has only four students in the class this spring. One of them, Jennifer Zhao, registered for the course but had to petition for it to count toward a critical reflections [...]
Rice Pot Wonders: Now We’re Cookin’
By Stephanie Chen One-pot cooking means less mess to clean up, and a rice cooker – for the busy, cheap or lazy student – makes a quick, tasty meal with a click of a button. While the first commercial model cooker released by Toshiba in 1955 took five years to develop, today’s models range from [...]
Show Me The Spice!
Six ways to use ginger outside the kitchen. By Caitlin Donnelly Upset stomach? Aching head? Even though you may be miles from home, Grandma’s home remedies can still be used to tackle some of the common ailments that accompany the long, busy days of the college lifestyle. Instead of heading to the drug store to [...]
Stereotype or Statistic?
Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book pushes the view that Asians are better at math. By David Taube Math skills for Asian students represent innate abilities for some and hard work for others. The debate centers more around why Asian students have these traits, rather than if they possess these skills. More than 40 percent of 8th [...]
Fiction & Fact
“Americanese” Preview By Shavon S. Greene Aurora Crane (Allison Sie) has never been kissed. Well, never by an Asian man before her lips touched Raymond Ding (Chris Tashima), an older Chinese professor: her first and only love. She is Hapa (half-Asian), yet she “moves more comfortably in the white world.” The independent film, “Americanese,” begins [...]
Fresh Threads
A Japanese designer begins to take a bite out of the Big Apple. By Noelia De La Cruz Makoto Takada designs with a sense of humor and playfulness that is innately Japanese, but his inspiration stems largely from his love for American films. Watching them for enjoyment, he comes out of them enthused by the [...]
Orange Carpet Runway
In April, designer Gabrielle Hennessey’s Japanese-inspired designs will take a slice of the SU catwalk. By Jada Wong The Designer Everyone has their own story, but Gabrielle Hennessey’s story spans over a few continents. Hennessey, a senior fashion design major, was adopted from Korea and grew up in South Jersey with her adopted Korean brother, [...]
Censorship Uncensored
China’s Internet laws restrict access to certain Web sites, but do the restrictions encroach upon civil rights? By Uyen Nguyen When Yin Lin first transferred to Syracuse University, there were several differences that she noted between her Chinese culture and the one in the U.S. For the junior nutrition major, one of the biggest surprises [...]
Oh, the Humanities!
A liberal arts degree is what you make it, and a number of Asian students are making it work. By Jonathan Chan Society often dubs Asians the “model minority.” Part of the stereotype includes them being geniuses, with high SAT scores and the Ivy League education to prove it. Asian characters on television – such [...]
Identity Deft
Asian faces on YouTube are quickly gaining views, comments and popularity, on their own terms, rather than society’s. By Edmund Mai They talk about UFO sightings, Lil Wayne and slug sex. Millions of viewers keep watching, so they continue to upload their rants, sketches, song covers and utter randomness. While the average span of these [...]
