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"Mixed people have a harder time adjusting to racial categories," says William Lung-Fu "Lonnie" Everson '02, HAPA's "Master of the Big Pants."
Weisinger, who is half-Chinese and half-Caucasian says, "The issue of being mixed wasn't an issue for me until college admissions." But she still felt that she was viewed as white in elementary school and as Chinese in high school.
Still, being a member of a diverse racial background has its benefits as well.
Everson, who is also co-president of the Japan Society and public relations director for the Asian American Brotherhood, says that being half-Asian has given him "a better perspective on things," strengthened him as an individual, and allowed him to easily adapt to different groups.
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.