shoutout to ohio

In Helen Gym’s writeup as Angry Reader of the Week (hear hear for great public schools, libraries, and parks).

a great last line

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/world/asia/28iht-windia.html?hp

A most delicious sandwich (credit: slai), even better when they throw in free stuff.

the unlikely disciple

I’m only about 20 pgs in, but this book is pretty amusing, a nice addition to the list of books on evangelical college students by non-evangelicals, academic and non-academic (others being Hanna Rosin’s “God’s Harvard,” Peter Magolda’s “It’s All about Jesus!,” and Paul Bramadat’s “The Church on the World’s Turf”).

I do love Parks and Recreation. I second Questlove on it being the Wu-Tang of comedy.

I would really, really like a grader for my stats class.

if you know any cool seniors/creative nerds

March 1 deadline: https://us.fulbrightonline.org/types_mtvu.html

the unchosen me

Interview with the very cool and smart Rachelle Winkle-Wagner on her book, the Unchosen Me.  I have yet to read it but she had a great article in the Review of Higher Ed a few months back.  Title reminds me of some of the themes in Abelmann’s book–different population, similar double consciousness.

vote cpaf on facebook

Someone at the Center for the Pacific Asian Family knows an impressive swatch of the (Socal) APA entertainment/media/arts community. PSAs here, here, and here. More evidence that web 2.0 (or whatever stage we’re in) has been good to Asian Americans.

follow-up on willowcreek

A follow-up interview with the Time magazine reporter who wrote the article on Willow Creek and race/diversity a few weeks back.

liberal university dreams

It’s rare that the spirit of an academic book can be embodied through not one but two youtube clips featuring singing and dancing college students…but we live in interesting times.  Finished the Intimate University yesterday, quite a read.  A theme of the book is students’ “liberal dreams” about college (and the disconnect between expectations/dreams and what they experience)…so here’s Yale contribution to perpetuating the college dream: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Yale-the-High-School/20565/ (Featuring the kid who does the MJ/Lady Gaga medleys!)

john park (no relation)

I’m making my way through Nancy Abelmann’s book on Korean Americans at UIUC and the migration patterns of KAs from Chicagoland, so that’s what I thought of when I saw this American Idol clip.

Semi-unrelated but another good AAM link: Harold Koh (former Dean at Yale Law and now at the State Dept) on diversity.

third grade has gotten a lot harder

You often hear a joke that people who got into xyz-college 10-20-30 years ago probably couldn’t get in today…but evidently that extends to elementary school. I don’t remember learning this in third grade! (Thanks Vicki for the link)