Spring time is here and it gets feisty—it’s the race for student government positions. We have four people running for president. Two slates Bruins United and Students First! have the most exposure on campus and online, so people tend to not hear about independent candidates. This isn’t a…
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.…
Yes, it is finals week (if you couldn’t tell from the reduced number of my posts), and I have an essay due tomorrow as well as a final that I have not yet started studying for. But I would be remiss in my ~*American manners*~ if I did…
Written by Deanna Hoang-Yen Tran The Asian-American and Pacific Islander community’s label as the model minority is detrimental to the well-being of the community. In response to the topic of the model minority myth, a female Asian UCLA pre-med student majoring in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology stated,…
The Chin Chens is a television show that details the life of a loving but unique family. They are unique because the family members come from different ethnic backgrounds. The father is Chinese and the mother is Vietnamese. THey have three children, two of whom have chosen to…
The Tet Festival, put on by the Vietnamese Language and Culture (VNLC) student organization, was held in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom on the night of January 23, 2011. The annual festival was lively with Vietnamese food and cultural activities. “Tet” is short for “Tet Nguyen Dan”, which is the…