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...First HAPA...
Kent M. Walther '99-'01 was the 1995-1996 club secretary of the first hapa group on campus, started by a graduate student named Christine Millet...
...original HAPA held discussions about biracial issues such as mixed marriages, sponsored the premiere American showing of "Doubles," a television documentary on people of half-Asian descent, and held social events featuring Asian food like sushi and Chinese noodles...
According to Walther, the first HAPA gave its members a chance to discuss biracial issues, which they had not had a chance...
Like the present-day HAPA, the original HAPA had a small core group of active members--about 10. But unlike the new HAPA, the original group existed before the emergence of mixed-race golf celebrity Tiger Woods, and before the 2000 Census, which allows Americans to fill in more than one racial bubble...