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Honoring a Leader Spring Campaign Join JACL in thanking Like what you see at John Tateishi for his www.pacificcitizen.org? tireless commitment Please consider donating. and leadership. COUPON PAGE 2 COMMUNITY PAGE 5 Tatsuno TIme since1929PACIFIC CITIZEN Former U. of Hawaii star pitcher elected to NCAA Hall of Fame. The National Pu blication of th(:) Japanese American Citizens league Beyond Traditional Costumes, Food Fairs and Dragon Dances The pomp of APA Heritage with ancient influ Af'A HERITAGE MONTH Month celebrations is ever ences. This year, one A Return to Classes Brings Unease present, but what about the male contestant wore substance? a loincloth and car lor Some Virginia Tech. AA Students ried a spear to cele AA college students across the country are pulling By LYNDA LIN brate his Filipino her together as some hate crime incidents are reported, like Assistant Editor itage. ly fallout from the recent tragic shootings. "What we try to do At Penn State, April is called for Asian American By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM "Asian April." Heritage Month is to Executive Editor For a week, the campus reverber emphasize Asian ates with the sounds of bamboo American . heritage Virginia Tech freshman Bridgette Kim, 19, dances, booming taiko drums and a and history by host EXPRESSING CULTURE: delayed her return to classes by one day so she sundry of music from the students' ing events every Alpha Kappa Delta Phi, could attend one more memorial and burial for the native lands. Penn State, like most weekend in Asian an APA interest sorority victims of the recent tragic shootings. Like her other colleges across the nation, cel April," said Yang at Penn State, cele classmates she too will be returning to campus after ebrates Asian Pacific American Liang, an undergrad brates APA Heritage a week of shared grief. But unlike many of them, Heritage Month early. uate industrial engi month with its annual Kim, a Korean American, is also quietly wonder For the occasion, APA organiza neering major at 'Asian Awareness'show. ing: will I be treated differently now? tions at Penn State host ethnic dance Penn State. "It concerns me a little, especially as I go back to school," she said. performances and a "Mr. and Ms. Amidst all the Heritage Month. Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 students and APA Penn State" pageant where pomp of APA Heritage celebrations Does the occasion call for a faculty in a deadly rampage April 16. In the end he took his own life. contestants vie for the title by on college campuses across the ' parade of costumes and customs or a Although it was the horrific act of one individual, endless media reports answering questions about their hob United States, the memory of the more serious look at APA issues arid have emphasized the shooter's Korean American ethnicity, in effect gen bies and strutting in costumes of Virginia Tech tragedy looms like a history? eralizing an entire community. their choice. Oftentimes, the usual caliginous cloud, and with it comes See STUDENTS RETURNIPage 4 mix of modem clothes is peppered questions of the purpose of APA See APA Heritage MonthlPage 6 Becoming the Best of the Beach AA Student's Essay Draws 2nd Disorderly Con uct Charge Early on, Logan Tom drew The charges come shortly with the dead bodies. Well, not real cODlparisons to the legends after the recent shootings at ly, but it would be funny if I did." of beach volleyball. Now she Virginia Tech and JACL is Another passage said, "as a is playing alongside them. concerned this could be a teacher, don't be surprised on inspir case of racial profiling ing the first CG shooting," the com By LYNDA LIN plaint said. The creative writing assignment Assistant Editor By Associated Press and P.e. Staff in Lee's English class on April 23 instructed students to "write whatev The basics of the game remain the Authorities have filed a second er comes to your rnind. Do not judge same, but it's the elements that frus disorderly conduct charge against an or censor what you are writing," trate Logan Tom. A spray of sand Asian American high school senior ALLEN LEE according to a copy of the assign here or a whip of wind there changes arrested for writing an essay officials ment. everything, so she is retooling her described as disturbing and inappro but an amended complaint filed AARON LAMBERT/AVP.COM "In creative writing, you're told to body for the new environment. After priate. April 26 cited a second passage. Logan Tom lunges for the ball at exaggerate," Lee said. "It was sup years of dominating the indoor court, Allen Lee, 18, of Cary was arrest According to . the complaint, the the AVP Dallas Open. posed to be just junk.... There defi the v9lleyball phenom compares the ed last week after penning the essay essay reads, in part, "Blood, sex and nitely is violent content, but they're transition to the beach to a fawn over each other, impeded every once at his northern illinois high school. booze. Drugs, drugs, drugs are fun. taking it out of context and makiIig it learning to walk again. in awhile by a bleating whistle in the Lee contends he was just following Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, something it isn't." "It's been a learning process. It's background. Logan has come a long the creative writing assignment he s ... t...a... b ... puke. So I had this dream Lee has been removed from frustrating not being able to do the way since Stanford University was given in class at Cary-Grove last night where I went into a build things I could do easily on the school, and District 155 spokesman See LOGAN TOMlPage 6 High School. ing, pulled out two P90s and started court," said Tom, 25, between prac Lee initially faced just one charge, shooting everyone, then had sex See STUDENT ESSAYlPage 4 tice sessions in Manhattan Beach, WASHINGTON WINDOW Calif. After Don Imus, Hate Radio Lives On Ove~ the phone her words tumble JACl:s Legislative APA groups are pushing for 'This isn't about one Priorities the immediate firings of prank. This is about a By FLOYD MORI New York's 92.3 Free FM history ofdenigrating JACL Nat'l Director shock jocks. Asian American people' - William Lee he current legislative session By P. Staff and Associated Press A coalition of APAs seems to have a considerable e. T protested in front of intensity as a new Don Imus is gone, but the hosts of the CBS New York Democratic a New York morning radio talk show headquarters April 27. Congress tries to are still employed after their on-air pass legislation PHOTO: FALLOUTCENTRAL.COM racist and anti-Asian antics - it's a that will get bi hypocrisy Asian Pacific American and Elvis." Asian American people. We as a partisan support groups are vehemently protesting. Vandergrift and Lay were recently community cannot stand up if there from · a Chanting ''Fire N and Elvis now! suspended for prank calling a are people like this constantly telling Republican End hate speech now!" a group of Chinese restaurant to make racist us you're nothing," said William Administration. over 100 APA leaders gathered in and offensive remarks. But APA Lee, a producer of Falloutcentral. The mix has a tendency for volatili front of the CBS headquarters April leaders also point out that the radio com. ty and a "lines drawn in the sand" 27 and called for the firing of 92.3 hosts have a long track record of Community leaders are quick to strategy. While it has been hoped Free FM's Jeff Vandergrift (aka N) racism towards APAs. draw comparisons between the Imus that a spirit of bi-partisanship and and Dan Lay (aka Elvis), hosts of the "This isn't about one prank. This backlash, which ultimately resulted is about a history of denigrating See MORVPage 12 daily show ''The Dog House with N See HATE RADIOJPage 12 2 SPRING CAMPAIGN/LEITERS PAciFIc CITIZEN, MAy 4-17, 2007 ~ PACtAC CmZEN ~ SPRING CAMPAIGN 2005 WINNERI p-------------LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? GMEirlA The Paperless NelMS : . www.paclflccltlzen.or ~ Awards In Wrtdng ..J (FI)evolutipn Continues By SHELDON ARAKAKI banner has rotating front page stories I PACIFIC CITIZEN that fade in and out. 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