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Moon Festival Recap

Thanks again to everyone who came out for Moon Festival Saturday night!! Here’s a recap of Moon Festival in case anyone missed it.
Food
Hope everyone enjoyed the food served! CSSA served generous amounts of rice and main entrée dishes for each serving. The four different dinner choices were: Yu Xiang Rou Si (Fish-flavored pork in English?), [...]

Asian-Americans in New York City Politics

John C. Liu won in the New York City Democratic runoff elections on September 29th.   He has been a prominent Asian-American politician in the city, and is on the path to becoming the first Asian-American elected to citywide office in New York City.  According to the New York Times profile of Liu, “Mr. Liu is [...]

Michelle Rhee & the American Dream

Today I attended a lecture by Michelle Rhee, a Cornell graduate, who now serves as the chancellor of the public school system of D.C.  Rhee was appointed by the mayor in the summer of 2007 and has been working ever since to improve the notoriously inefficient and relatively low-achieving school district.
Michelle Rhee is a prominent [...]