Every class, my professor provides his students with response sheets about the documentary we’ve viewed during class. Yesterday, he mentioned how he can measure if a student in class is actually invested in our topics through his questions: depends on how in-depth, critical, and well thought-out the answers.…

Vietnamese Student Union (VSU) at UCLA will hold its annual Black April Commemoration Week , “a touching and empowering program that will serve as a tool to bridge the generational gap between many Vietnamese Americans and war-related immigrant families”. Tonight is Black April Expression Night, which will focus on…

I don’t think I’ve ever done a review of a book review before–but here goes. Kyung-sook Shin’s bestselling Korean novel, Please Look After Mom, has been translated into English. And while I’ve only read an excerpt of the novel, I have read Maureen Corrigan’s review of it. At…

So, I’m not really a Rain fan. I don’t dislike him–I just don’t follow him because, well, there’s already f(x), and DBSK, and SNSD, and…yeah, you get the point. My loyalties lie elsewhere. Still, this Time 100 poll impresses me. Rain, who won the poll last year, has…

Here are some quick quiz questions about Bay Rong/Clash: why would you give a movie the English title of Clash, when the translation of its Vietnamese title is the much cooler Seven Dragons? Why the hell was someone as incompetent as Ox recruited for a heist team? Why…

From Asian Pacific Coalition: Submissions accepted until Thursday April 21, 2011 at 5:00 PM Description of Event: Event: Cambodian Genocide Commemoration Cosponsored By: United Khmer Students, Critical Asian Pacific-Islander Students for Action, and the Asian Pacific Coalition Date: April 23rd, 2011 from 5-8 PM Location: Sunset Canyon Recreation…