This column originally appears in St. Cloud Times, Monday, February 10, 2014. If you watched the Super Bowl commercials, you should be aware of the controversy Coca-Cola stirred up with its new ad titled “It’s Beautiful.” The 60-second ad featured “America, the Beautiful,” sung in seven languages during scenes of Americans of different ethnicities spending time … Continue reading Coke Ad Shows True Beauty of the United States
Tiger Mom Talks about Cultural Superiority
Dr. Amy Chua of Yale Law School is publishing a new (controversial) book this month–The Triple Package–and this time she co-authored it with her husband, who is also a Yale professor. Even before the book has made it to the bookshelf, major news media like The Guardian has begun talking about how this book would … Continue reading Tiger Mom Talks about Cultural Superiority
Dong Dong Chiang: Tips for Surviving this Lunar New Year
The Chinese/Lunar New Year, or CNY as how the texting-generation likes to call it, is a month-long festivity celebrated at the beginning of a new lunisolar calendar. Also known as the Spring Festival, this festivity marks one of the major - if not the most important - celebrations throughout the year. Though I have not been … Continue reading Dong Dong Chiang: Tips for Surviving this Lunar New Year
Top Majors at St. Cloud State
Recently, I was poking around the very-much-unseen website of the Office of Strategy, Planning and Effectiveness at SCSU and was surprised to see the 2012-13 enrollment numbers according to majors. Having been at St. Cloud State for almost half a decade now, I have always had the perception that the College of Liberal Arts and … Continue reading Top Majors at St. Cloud State
Keep the Resolutions Afloat
This column originally appears in St. Cloud Times, Monday, January 13, 2014. This is the pre-edited version of the article. As we celebrate the beginning of a new calendar year, quite often we are prompted to make new resolutions and plans to try something new, or to do something differently. Many of us scribble new … Continue reading Keep the Resolutions Afloat
Jason Tham, Ph.D. 