ASA decries column
After seeing a beautiful photograph of ASA's Lunar New Year show on the cover of Monday's Chronicle, the Asian Students Association was surprised to find a racial attack on Asians in the "Monday, Monday" column. JACK BAUER'S BIDET wrote a particularly painful-to-read tirade, and for the purpose of humor, he included numerous careless and offensive stereotypes of Asian males when writing of engineers and dating by stating, "most of these men turn out to be either emotionally unavailable, boring, overworked, taken or Asian." Since when is it acceptable to present any ethnicity as a negative trait? Does the columnist believe that Asians will remain silent and that this sort of "humor" is tolerable at Duke?-because we highly doubt he would hazard to report that a dating pool was bleak because it was "black," "Jewish" or "Latino."