Last week, the much hyped M. Night Shyamalan movie, “The Last Airbender” opened in theaters. Featuring the highly criticized white-washed cast, many among the Asian Pacific American community hoped this would be a flop. Well, according to the wave of recent reviews for the film and the astoundingly low 8 percent it received on Rotten Tomatoes, this wish has been granted.
According to the majority of reviews, when you critique the movie by its major components—storyline, cinematography and acting—there was nothing that made it good.

For the past few months there’s been ongoing buzz about Harvard student Jeremy Lin’s prospects in the upcoming NBA draft. Now, the high school Bhullar brothers are the latest Asian athletes to find themselves in the spotlight. Sim, 17, and Tanveer, 15, are Indian basketball players who grew up in Canada and currently attend the Kiski School in Saltsburg, PA. Both are over 7 feet tall—a rarity even in the current NBA.

Now that it’s summer, college application season is officially over. People are attending summer orientations, signing up for dorms and getting excited for high school graduation. So what happened to those applications? They can’t affect anything anymore, right?
Wrong. Adam Wheeler was recently charged with 20 counts, from identity fraud to larceny for lying on his application to Harvard and various scholarships. Wheeler claimed he’d gotten perfect SAT scores (really scoring 1220), received straight As at MIT (he never went) and attended Phillips Academy (he went to high school in Delaware). …