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July 2, 2018
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Harvard, Asian-Americans group
spar over data in bias case
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A simple shrimp pad thai
that requires just one skillet
By America’s Test Kitchen
Our version of this take-out classic is
surprisingly easy to make and requires
just one skillet.
While truly authentic pad thai, with its
sweet, sour, and salty flavors, requires
hard-to-find ingredients like preserved
daikon, palm sugar, and dried shrimp, our
simplified recipe uses accessible ingre-
dients to create a simple flavor profile.
One-Pan Shrimp Pad Thai
Servings: 4
Start to finish: I hour
8 ounces (3/8-inch-wide) rice noodles
1/3 cup lime juice (3 limes)
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup fish sauce
1 pound extra-large shrimp (21 to 25 per pound), peeled and deveined
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
4 garlic cloves, minced
8 ounces (4 cups) bean sprouts
Fresh cilantro
1/4 cup dry-roasted peanuts, chopped
Bring three quarts water to boil in large saucepan. Place noodles in large bowl.
Pour boiling water over noodles. Stir, then let soak until noodles are soft and
pliable, but not fully tender, stirring once halfway through soaking, 12 to 15
minutes. Drain noodles and rinse under cold running water until water runs clear.
Drain well and set aside.
While noodles soak, squeeze 1/3 cup lime juice. Whisk sugar, fish sauce, and lime
juice together in bowl. Mince garlic. Chop 1/4 cup cilantro. Chop peanuts.
Peel and devein shrimp. Pat shrimp dry with paper towels.
Heat oil in 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until just smoking.
Add shrimp in single layer and cook until spotty brown and cooked through, about
two minutes per side. Stir in garlic during last minute of cooking. Transfer shrimp
to plate and tent loosely with aluminum foil.
Add noodles and lime juice mixture to the now-empty skillet and cook over
medium heat until sauce is thickened slightly, about four minutes.
Add sprouts and shrimp to skillet and cook until shrimp and sprouts are warmed
through and noodles are well coated and tender, about three minutes. Sprinkle with
cilantro and peanuts and serve.
Nutrition information per serving: 478 calories (98 calories from fat); 10 g fat (1 g
saturated, 0 g trans fats); 143 mg cholesterol; 1,894 mg sodium; 76 g carbohydrate; 2
g fiber; 21 g sugar; 21 g protein.
Easy recipes similar to One-Pan Shrimp Pad Thai are found in Dinner Illustrated.
Bill seeks historic site status
for Oahu internment camp
New school named after
Asian immigrant activist
HONOLULU (AP) — A bill before
congress would designate a World War II
internment camp on Oahu as a national
historic site, allowing access to more
protections and funding.
Hawaii News Now reports the
Honouliuli Internment Camp opened in
1943 to hold Japanese Americans and
prisoners of war. It was established as a
national monument in 2015.
Democratic U.S. representative Colleen
Hanabusa, who introduced the measure,
says the site would be entitled to
additional funding under the new
designation. The measure would also open
up opportunities for more preservation
efforts and archaeological research.
The public is not currently allowed to
visit the site, but a public memorial is
being planned.
The National Park Service says the site
will give the history of internment, martial
law, and the experiences of prisoners in
Hawai‘i.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) —
Silicon Valley officials are naming a new
elementary school after an award-winning
journalist who grew up in the country
illegally.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported
that the Mountain View Whisman School
District board voted to name the school
after Jose Antonio Vargas.
Vargas emigrated with his family from
the Philippines to the U.S. when he was 12
years old. He attended Mountain View
High School.
He revealed his undocumented status in
a New York Times Magazine essay in 2011.
School board president Laura Blakely
said Vargas has been an inspiration for
other students in the district who have
grown up without U.S. citizenship. She
said the decision was motivated in part by
current national news about immigration,
but more so by the writer’s achievements.
Vargas called the board’s decision an
honor.
Duke
University
economist
Peter
Arcidiacono, says race plays a major role
and works against Asian Americans.
The study found that if Harvard relied
only on the academic scores it assigns to
each applicant, more than half of admitted
students would have been Asian American
over the six years. Instead, they made up
22 percent.
Arcidiacono largely puts the blame on
subjective categories that disfavor Asian
Americans. They received lower scores
than any other racial group in the category
for “personal qualities,” for example, and
they fared worse than whites in the overall
rating assigned by Harvard.
Yet he notes that Harvard alumni who
interview applicants and provide separate
ratings scored Asian Americans higher
than whites overall, a contrast that
Arcidiacono says suggests bias.
The university says the analysis is
flawed because it excludes applicants
believed to have an advantage regardless
of race, including relatives of alumni and
athletes recruited by the school.
Instead, Harvard sought its own study
from David Card, an economist at the
University of California, Berkeley, who
found no evidence of discrimination.
Looking at a wider pool of applicants and
admissions factors, Card found that the
effect of being Asian American was
“statistically
indistinguishable
from
zero.”
Harvard also objected to the group’s use
of a 2013 internal study that was
uncovered during discovery. The inquiry,
which was conducted amid earlier
allegations of bias, explores the racial
makeup of the school’s admitted class.
A chart from the report indicates that,
even considering factors like legacy status
and extracurricular activities, Asian
Americans would be expected to make up
about 26 percent of the admitted class. In
reality, they made up 19 percent.
Students for Fair Admissions said the
report is proof of intentional discrimina-
tion and that Harvard “killed the study
and quietly buried the reports.”
Harvard countered that the study was
never intended to evaluate possible dis-
crimination and that it was “incomplete,
preliminary, and based on limited inputs.”
The lawsuit raises implications for
many other universities that, like Har-
vard, say they consider race among many
factors.
In 2016, the Supreme Court examined
the topic and upheld race-conscious
admissions at the University of Texas, but
the justices warned that other colleges still
must be able to prove affirmative action is
the only way to meet diversity goals.
Blum also was a driving force behind
that case, helping Texas student Abigail
Fisher sue the university. Fisher is also an
executive in Students for Fair Admissions,
according to the group’s tax filings.
The court filings followed a battle over a
trove of Harvard data reviewed by lawyers
earlier in the lawsuit.
Harvard argued that its records should
be filed confidentially to protect students
and the admissions process. Blum’s group
said the public should have access to the
records, and the U.S. Education
Department weighed in to agree.
The judge ultimately sided with
Harvard, but Blum said he believes the
rest of the records will be released “in the
next few weeks.”
The staff at The Asian Reporter wish you and
your family a safe and happy Independence Day!