In July,  Pvt. Danny Chen, 19 yrs. old, committed suicide while stationed in Afghanistan.  According to New York Times, the reason behind the Private Chen's suicide was that he was "being harassed by his superiors". Sgt. Adam M. Holcomb was charged of negligent homicide and few other crimes. However, Sgt. Holcomb argues that the reasoning behind Pvt. Chen's death was because he was doing poorly as a soldier and his parents disown him.


Here is the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/nyregion/pvt-danny-chen-talked-of-suicide-over-hazing-friend-testifies.html?_r=1&ref=asianamericans

Do you believe that Private Chen's mistreatment from his comrades was an act of discrimination due to his ethnicity that may or may not have triggered his suicide? Or do you have other opinions about Private Chen's mistreatment or about his reason for suicide? What do you think about the actions led by some of these comrades relating to or was part of the young man's suicide? What do you think about Sgt. Holcomb's response to Pvt. Chen's suicide?  Please share your opinions and let us know what you think.


If you want to follow up more on this issue, here are more links to other articles following up on Pvt. Chen's suicide case.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/nyregion/army-jury-acquits-sergeant-of-driving-pvt-danny-chen-to-suicide-in-afghanistan.html?ref=asianamericans

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/nyregion/jury-recommends-30-day-sentence-for-sergeant-in-death-of-pvt-danny-chen.html?ref=asianamericans

Please check out these articles and let us know what you think about the verdict of the Pvt. Chen's suicide case.

New Exec Board Members~

Welcome new Execs!!

I am glad we have a new board this semester. I hope that this year would be a good year for the AAA.
We will soon be coming up with events to do for our members. 

That's all for now.

P.S. I will be posting up some more stuff in the very near future. :P


~BTG

Hello to the New School Year

Hello Everyone,

       I like to say hello and welcome everyone to the new school year. School is starting up and that means new events, new people, and new stories. The AAA has already met up today to prepare for events this week and several weeks after. It's going to be a very busy beginning this Fall semester. I hope that everyone will have fun and do good this year. I also hope to see everyone old and new visiting AAA's events. I wish you all the best.

P.S. 

I will later post up events happening in the next few weeks. Also, for those who are new, AAA is the Asian American Association at IU. For more information, please visit our official Facebook webpage: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/aaa.iub/

See you all soon,

~Keri

The Horrible Blogger~

Hello everyone,


 I apologize for being on a hiatus from the blog. However, my goals and hopes is to jump back into blogging. I had a lot of things happening these past several months that preoccupied my time and realized as a first time blogger that keeping up with the blog is very hard. Well hopefully, I can get back into it. I probably won't be on it everyday but I will definitely make a goal of blogging a few times a month. That might seem bad but my idea was to collect news articles and other pieces of news about the Asian American community and blog about it in one go. Also, everyone is welcome to blog your opinions as well as post any news relating to Asian Americans and life stories or experiences as an Asian American or anything related to that. 


(P.S. Sorry for being a horrible blogger -__-; )


~Keri