Alien Land Laws: Still on the Books (in National News) Hate Crimes Galvanize U.C. Davis Students (in Bay Area News) The Internet: To Tax or Not To Tax? (in Business) Tan Dun: From Hunan to Hollywood (in A&E) Emil Amok: The New Corporate Ethnic Media (in Opinion)

United We Stand

This week’s issue proves you don’t have to be a model to look marvelous. You don’t even have to be rich. On a budget of less than $700, AW arts editor Yvonne Lai put together eight pages of high style. All the clothes —four complete outfits found in less than two hours —were purchased at community thrift stores. Not only did Lai get fellow staffers Joseph Hong, Ian Kim and Sam Lau to pose, but she also recruited classifieds rep An Na Tran to do the make-up.

Quite a community effort! Not nearly as impressive, though, as the protest that took place last week. Some 300 activists, students and faculty members of U.C. Davis rallied against a string of racial incidents that have rocked the campus. In one episode, frat boys from Kappa Sigma forced themselves into an apartment belonging to Korean American students from Sigma Kappa Rho. The boys ransacked the place and reportedly called the API students chinks. John Park, one of the victims said, “I personally hadn’t ever given much thought to hate crimes before it happened to me … I haven’t even heard the word ‘chink’ since elementary school.”

Hearing Park’s testimony has further galvanized students. Among their demands is that the school designate a point person to work with victims of campus hate crimes, and that the school establish an API center with professional staff.

The community is a powerful force. Together, we can right wrongs, make positive changes, and show thatour “ethnic media” aren’t just about making money—we’re about saving it, as well!