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FEATURE FASHION PROFILE 03 ENTERTAINMENT WHAT IN THE WORLD? 07

COVER FOOD PROFILE 09

ENTERTAINMENT WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ASIAN RESTAURANT? 13 OPINION ASIAN COLLEGE DISCRIMINATION? 15

DESIGN BY SELINA HUA

FASHION PROFILE

BY JENNA WANG

DESIGN AND ART BY SELINA HUA

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MAY 19, 2017

INDIAN WOMENS: Women in India often wear traditional saris made of fancy material, such as cotton, silk or factory blends up to seven yards that wrap around a body in countless ways. Underneath a sari, women wear short tops, slips or petticoat-type garments. Saris come in many different color and designs, making it one of the most traditional and cultural outfits for women in India.

MENS: Men in India commonly wear clothing called the dhoti kurta, which consists of a long cotton shirt called the kurta with a loose skirt type wrap called the dhoti that wraps around the legs in a loose manner. The clothing articles are mostly solid colors with few decorations but are made out of fine materials.

CHIN MENS: Men in China traditionally wear the same design of tunics as women, except that the length of the tunics reaches the knees and the colors of the tunics are usually more dark.

The tunics that men wear also tend to have less ornamentation, designs, or decorations. Originally, the tunics were commonly worn during the Qing dynasty since 1664 but they did not really gain popularity until worn by Ye Wan (aka IP Man), who was the master that taught kung fu legend Bruce Lee.

WOMENS: Women in China traditionally wear lengthy tunics that reach the ground. The sleeves of the tunics are usually wide and loose fitting, with a variety of designs, decorations, and ornamentations. Tunics are usually more of the preferred dark colors instead of lighter colors. One of the most popular tunics worn by women in China is called the Ch’ang P’ao, which is a one-piece ankle length tunic dress.

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N A E R O K WOMENS: Women in Korea traditionally wear the ch’ima, which is a rectangular or tube-like skirt with a high, pleated waistband. It is tied above the chest area with long colorful sashes usually made out of fine silk and satin materials. Because the ch’ima is long and flowy, it completely hides the whole female shape, which is influenced by the Confucian following society. It also allows for a great deal of freedom for squatting, which is the position most Korean women take when they do household chores.

MENS: Korean men, many of whom were considered scholars, wore the Dop’o, Hakch’angui, and Shimui. These articles of clothing are scholar’s overcoats and the style is supposed to symbolize a sublime, noble mind. They are often tied together with long sashes and usually represent colors of purity, integrity, and relative wealth, which include white and blue.

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WHAT -IN THE -

WORLD

BY JENNA WANG

DESIGN AND ART BY JIN LEE

08 North Korea North Korea is one of the most politically isolated countries in the world and still has a dictatorship.

Japan South Korea It is common to eat tuna eyes San-nakji is eaten, which is octopus tentacles cut as a favored delicacy. off immediately when the octopus is still alive and F E AT U R E

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China then served life to eat raw to customers.

Century-old Eggs are eaten, which are left to wait for months until the yolk turns black and the surrounding egg-white turns into a black clear substance.

India Known for the largest mango production in the world at around 12 million tons each year.

Philippines Baluts are eaten, which are like hard-boiled eggs only except the eggs are actually half-fertilized.

U.A.E The tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa, standing at a whopping 2, 717 feet in the air.

Thailand There is an annual water festival called the Songkran Festival to celebrate the New Year.

Cambodia Cambodians from Skuon eat tarantulas as a common delicacy.

FOOD PROFILE International food cuisines have a lot to tell us about the world in which we live in, and Asia is becoming one of the central places for thousands of years of diverse culture.

BY JENNA WANG DESIGN BY SELINA HUA PHOTOS BY SELINA HUA, JIN LEE, JENNA WANG, SANMATI THANGAVEL

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Ingredients:

MAPO TOFU

Premium soy sauce 2 tbs Salt seasoning Oil 1/4 cup Seasoning for spiced soy bean curd 2.5 tbs (more or less depending on spice tolerance) Pepper dash Medium firm tofu 538g 3-4 cups water Spring onions chopped up Welcome to China.

Whenever you get the chance to visit this sprawling and diverse country with over 3.7 million square miles and over 1.37 billion in population, you’ll be exposed to a variety of new senses that are full of new colors, smells, tastes, sights, and especially, culture. From the famous Great Wall to the mysterious Forbidden City, these are some of the many structures that have stood the test of time, with some relics dating back to more than 5,000 years ago. As this country grew both in size and power, so did the relocation of its people, who migrated all over the world, including the U.S. This country is one of the U.S’s biggest trade partners today, and manufacturing sectors are constantly growing.

Not only is China known for some of the longest civilizations in existence, nor is it just known for the architecture or industry in various cities. Chinese cuisine is certainly a huge part of the culture, and the cuisine varies by different regions. Many of the Chinese foods eaten have had

“I HAVE KNOWN THIS RECIPE FOR A LONG TIME, BUT I ONLY STARTED MAKING IT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO [MY FAMILY AND I] EAT THIS ALMOST EVERYDAY.” -YIN ZHOU influence over most American food choices as well, such as the usual egg rolls or orange chicken that are common to most Americans. However, most Chinese people stick by authentic food that has remained in their palettes for thousands of years. The authentic food created is not like any other. A wide variety of different seasonings, ingredients, techniques and styles are used when preparing food, such as one of the most popular Chinese foods:

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IDLI AND CHUTNEY Ingredients:

Ingredients for IDLI 2 cups of soaked rice Urad dal 1/2 cup Fenugreek seed 1/2 teaspoon Salt as needed

“MY MOM HAS ALWAYS GIVEN ME THIS DISH AS A CHILD. I GREW UP LOVING THIS DISH AND I STILL DO TO THIS DAY.” -SANMANTI THANGAVEL

Welcome to India.

This vast, South Asian country is filled with a sprawling diverse landscape, ranging from the tall Himalayan peaks to the extensive Indian Ocean. India’s population is more than 1.3 billion people and the land area is 1.2 million square miles, making India the seventh largest country by land area and the second largest country by population size.

All of the vibrant culture, rituals and diverse people stem from India’s long history, which reaches back m o r e

than five millennia.

Throughout this history, India became known for many important features that shape the way it is today. Religion is a fundamental part of everyday living, as Hinduism is the first religion in the world to appear in modern India more than four thousand years ago. Many aspects of religion are reflected in the architecture, landmarks and traditions that are famous in India, like the Taj Mahal, bathing in the Ganges River or sightseeing the numerous highly intricate and detailed temples. Indian culture has developed far from religion and has found its way into the Indian food cuisine. Indian cuisine uses significant amounts of spices, herbs, vegetables and fruits to create unique combinations of food heavily influenced by religious and cultural traditions. Historical incidents like colonialism have shaped the cuisine, with the Portuguese bringing over the most important spice to India: chilli pepper. As the cuisine still evolves and develops today, it continues to influence many other cuisines around the world. One example of this is:

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BULGOGI WITH RICE

MAY 24, 2017

Ingredients: Four servings of cooked rice ½ small onions thinly sliced 2 scallions cut into 2-inch pieces 1 pound of thinly sliced beef (top sirloin or rib eye)

Sauce: 1/2 - 1 cup of beef broth 1/2 - 1 teaspoon soy sauce 1/2 - 1 teaspoon sugar

Welcome to Korea.

This country, with Seoul as its main capital city, is made up of nine provinces. These provinces have thought to have been founded as far back as 2333 B.C by Tan-gun, a mythical halfdivine, half-human being, from which all 50.6 million people are thought to have descended from. Here, the culture is very vibrant and respects both nature and a quiet sense of harmony, which is shown through many famous Korean paintings and ceramics.

Tourism is also very prominent, as millions of travelers from all over the world travel to enjoy the ecotourism, soaring palaces, towers, historical relics, sea-side fun and other cultural aspects.

One of the most important cultural aspects of Korea is its unique food cuisine that specializes on the visual aspect, detailed intricacy and specialized taste. It is similar to the Chinese and Japanese cuisine with an emphasis on spicy food.

Marinade: 3 tablespoons soy sauce 2 tablespoons water 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon honey 1 tablespoon rice wine (or mirin) 1 tablespoon garlic 1 tablespoon sesame oil 1 teaspoon sesame seeds 2 tablespoons grated Asian pear (optional) 1/8 teaspoon pepper

“THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT COOKING IS PUTTING YOUR HEART INTO IT.” -DEOKHEE HWANG

START-Crack the cookie!

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ASIAN

RESTAURANT? DESIGN BY JENNA WANG AND SELINA HUA

COMPILED BY SELINA HUA

Do you like Asian Food?

Totally! Hand over the chopsticks

No. Yuk.

Is raw food/ seafood your thing?

No

Sorry :( No food for you!

Are you open to trying new things?

I SEA the food, LOL

But I want food

Eh...

How does octopus, eel, ginger and wasabi sound?

Heck Yes! Introverts for life!

Can we interest you in any of the fortunes below? :)

Keep it coming!

Up for fried ice cream and cheesecake?

How broke are you?

Sounds like heaven. Can you fry up my hw and responsibilities while you’re at it?

*Are those even a thing!* Gasp!

I actually have $, LMAO Are you a rice or noodle person?

FML

Sun Cafe You’ve found your fortune at the Sun Cafe, where you get to enjoy a variety of cheap but delicious Asian cuisine with more of a Vietnamese undertone. Sun Cafe is prominently known for having a huge array of soups and traditional food, but is most popular for its barbecue.

You’ll see hanging smoked and barbecued ducks, chickens, and other foods. Get ready for a sweet Freshman - 15.

Noodles only, plz

Pho Zaika Welcome to Pho Zaika, a Vietnamese restaurant where you can indulge yourself in many different flavors of Pho. (pronounced fa. Bet you said it wrong!) Pho is one of the most popular dishes in Vietnam and is a hot noodle soup that consists of a broth, thin rice noodles, herbs, and different types of meat. Pho Zaika not only contains pho, but other popular Asian cuisine dishes as well.

Maybe add some examples

Both

Orienne Asian Cuisine Formerly known as Mekong, this restaurant has a new head chef and menu that brings with it a vibrant new essence of Chinese cuisine. With a Vietnamese undertone, the menu has a large variety of authentic and traditional food, perfect for a person who likes both rice and noodles. We’re glad you’re not broke.

Your typically rice

Oyama Sushi You’ve arrived at the #1 rated Asian restaurant in Iowa City by TripAdvisor. Welcome to the best place for sushi, where you can indulge in the exotic flavors of authentic and fresh Japanese food. They offer a wide range of choices, from ginger to shrimp.

They even offer fried ice cream and cheesecake, so what’s not to love?

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OPINION

ASIAN COLLEGE DISCRIMINATION? MAY 24, 2017

JENNA WANG ‘20

BY JENNA WANG

To most students, it would be a disaster if any vital part of a Common Application were left accidentally blank, especially if that application would be sent in to elite selective schools like Harvard. However, applications are indeed becoming more blank and it is no accident among the tens of thousands of hopeful Asian Americans that apply each year. The issue stems down to the ethnicity and race question under the demographics section of most college applications. While it seems like an extremely simple question, it can have drastic consequences, particularly towards Asian Americans.

As the number of applying Asians immensely increases, Asian discrimination has become a more prevalent issue and that leads to many Asians preferring to ignore the question or choosing to entirely be marked as a different ethnicity. Why is the growing trend that competition for a spot in the elite schools gets increasingly more tough for Asian Americans?

There are two main problems that most people have been turning a blind eye to. The first issue is that a large majority of Asian Americans focus towards the most selective schools, like the Ivy Leagues that include Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. The second is that acceptance rates for Asian Americans are the lowest among ethnicities mainly because the acceptance rates do not account for the immense growth of Asian American applicants. As there is more transparency of the holistic system that backfires on this ethnicity, discrimination is more visible in the secretive process behind closed doors. Often, the Asian Americans who apply to these elite schools are those of high academic standing with soaring GPA’s, grades, or stereotypically participate in math club, play either violin or piano or get involved with many STEM related competitions. In an admission officer’s point of view, this can get consistently tedious, as many academically robust Asian American applicants are referred to as “robotic,” “studying machine” or “just another violin playing student.” Vast numbers of Asian American applicants can easily be grouped into this hurtful stereotype and consequently, many are rejected because admission officers feel they “didn’t stand out” among the crowd.

As a result of the stereotype, admissions officers underlyingly have greater expectations of Asian Americans

and those who fall short of these “requirements” are harshly denied, with their application tossed aside to the ‘rejected’ pile. Several admission officers have noticed this controversy, included Sara Harberson, former associate dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania and former dean of admissions and financial aid at Franklin & Marshall College. “For example, there’s an expectation that Asian Americans will be the highest test scorers and at the top of their class; anything less can become an easy reason for a denial,” Harberson writes on her Op-Ed column. “In the end, holistic admissions can allow for a gray zone of bias at elite institutions, working against a group such as Asian Americans that excels in the black-and-white world of academic achievement.”

While Asian American discrimination in college applications may seem like a far-fetched conjecture, studies have actually been conducted to investigate this concern. A 2009 study by the National Study of College Experience shows that an Asian applicant must score 140 points higher than white applicants, 320 points higher than hispanic applicants, and 450 points higher than black applicants on the SAT in order to be viewed equally on a college application, which is not fair in a holistic COMPILED BY JENNA WANG

BY THE NUMBERS

1698

1332

Expected to Enroll in 2019

Asian americans Enrolled in 2009

913

Asian Americans Enrolled in 1999

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approach and considered discrimination. As news of this discrimination spreads over the country and gains crucial coverage, organizations have been taking action, such as the Asian American Coalition for Education (AACE). AACE filed several complaints at different highly selective schools through the Departments of Justice and Education, stating that as the number of Asian American applicants grew within the last 20 years, representation has remained stable or decreased, claiming that the schools have made “highly subjective and discriminatory” admissions decisions. After complaints were administered against Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard, the number of Asians admission acceptances did rise, partly due to political pressure, but not enough to justify the booming rate of Asian American applicants.

As an Asian American high school student myself, there is no doubt that I am constantly exposed to Asian stereotypes and have fallen within that derogatory

“AN ASIAN APPLICANT MUST SCORE 140 POINTS HIGHER THAN WHITE APPLICANTS, 320 POINTS HIGHER THAN HISPANIC APPLICANTS AND 450 POINTS HIGHER THAN BLACK APPICANTS ON THE SAT IN ORDER TO BE VIEWED EQUALLY ON A COLLEGE APPLICATION.” category. However, as I’ve grown up in America in the entirety of my existence, I’ve always stood by the message that students like me are all individual, diverse, unique, and can grow up to be anything we ever strived to be, no doubt ingrained in my head by all the Disney movies I have ever watched when I was a child full of imagination.

I also learned that stereotypes were the type of childish jokes that people outgrew once they reached adulthood, which gave me relief when I was negatively impacted by them as a child. By the time I reached junior high, it came to me as no surprise that schools which possessed the caliber of the Ivy Leagues were often the leaders in rolling

out positions of political or economical influence, and that is what I strived for by working as hard as I possibly could on school work, extracurricular activities, and utilizing my resources to the fullest potential in order to make a better future for myself.

Without hesitation, I hold great respect for the hard work that college application officers do and the responsibilities they have when selecting the world’s leaders and innovators for generations to come. However, when I came by the knowledge of Asian discrimination in college applications, I was deeply disappointed and shocked. It turns out that Asian Americans are more or less grouped and viewed as one big stereotype instead of each as diverse individuals, by the very people who said that we could be anything we ever wanted to be. When it comes down to deciding a crucial part in a person’s future, career, and everything down the line, shouldn’t that person be considered as an individual person? In decisions that can shape the rest of a person’s life, they should at least be respected as such for their hard work and existence as unique human beings and not because of their skin color or other factors they simply can not control. Not only is discrimination at play in one of the most fundamental and life-changing steps within any student’s education, but limiting the number of Asians at such influential schools limits the representation of the Asian demographic as a whole in the United States and reducing a diverse ethnicity to only a stereotype is humanly degrading, not just to Asians but to every single ethnicity. Wanting to have the most successful future is an American dream and ‘American’ is not defined. People should have the ability to create a future for themselves and be judged fairly, no matter what race or religion.

DESIGN BY SELINA HUA

Beat the Summer Heat with Bingsu!

What is Bingsu?

Bingsu is a popular Korean shaved ice dessert with various sweet toppings. The most traditional and common variation would be Patbingsu, which is topped with sweetened red beans.

• Easy Homemade Patbingsu Recipe • - INGREDIENTS -

•Shaved Ice •Sweetened Condensed Milk •Sweetened Red (Adzuki Bean) Paste •Tteok/Mochi/Rice Cake

- STEPS -

•Add ½ cup of sweet red beans on the bottom of a dessert bowl.

•Add 1½ cups of shaved ice over the sweet red beans.

•Add chopped strawberries, banana, and kiwi on top of the ice.

•Pour 2 tbs of sweetened condensed milk onto red beans and place chopped rice cakes on top.

•Serve right away with a spoon.