OCA Praises First Asian American Ivy League President, But Dismayed by Student Satire

March 16, 2009

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The Organization of Chinese Americans praises the recent appointment of Dr. Jim Yong Kim as president of Dartmouth College. OCA is dismayed that a satire story in a Dartmouth student e-publication referred to Kim as a "Chinaman" and that "another hard-working American's job will be taken by an immigrant willing to work in substandard conditions."

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