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Athena L. Lao ’12, who was involved in the creation of the recently-approved secondary field in Ethnic Studies, said she thought this change would benefit the growing program that she helped nurture into existence...
...will only open up the secondary to more people who thought they didn’t have room in their schedules or thought they had too many requirements to fulfill,” Lao said...
...incident is the latest step in a decades-old dance involving Laos' communists, the Hmong and the U.S. In the lead-up to the Vietnam War, North Vietnam carved a maze of transportation routes through the jungles of Laos, creating a crucial supply link later known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Laos was in the middle of a civil war between the Royal Lao government and the communist Pathet Lao. Seeking to disrupt the North's supply routes, the Americans enlisted the help of the Royal Lao government's highest-ranking Hmong leader, Vang Pao. He welcomed American guns...
After Saigon fell, America abandoned the secret army, and in 1975, as many as 10,000 Hmong were slaughtered at the hands of the ascendant Pathet Lao, according to Roger Warner, an author who is researching a book on Vang Pao. Others fled to neighboring Thailand and the U.S., where about 100,000 were eventually resettled. It was not until 1997 that Washington officially acknowledged the valor of the Hmong soldiers. A small stone with a copper plaque was placed in their honor between the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame in Arlington National...
...efforts of individual students...made this happen,” said Athena L.M. Lao ’12, one of the co-sponsors of the bill. “I’m very grateful that I could be part...