[lbo-talk] Asian-American Students at Virginia Tech

Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 05:08:16 PDT 2007


<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18cnd-virginia.html> April 18, 2007 Two-Hour Delay Is Linked to Bad Lead By SHAILA DEWAN and JOHN M. BRODER

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Asian-American students at Virginia Tech reacted to news about the gunman's identity with shock and a measure of anxiety about a possible backlash against them.

"My parents are actually worried about retaliation against Asians," said Lyu Boaz, a third-year accounting student who was born in South Korea and became an American citizen a year ago. "After 9/11, a lot of Arabs were attacked for that reason."

Mr. Boaz, a resident adviser at Pritchard Hall, said many Korean-American students had left campus immediately. Parents of other Korean-American students were preparing to pick up their children on Tuesday afternoon and take them home. -- Yoshie



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