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Highlighted News Items, August 29

Student Finds Calling in Learning Foreign Languages
An transfer student this week moves into the Language House Immersion Program. He seems an ideal fit. "One of (Michael Marcoux's) goals is to one day speak more languages than anyone else in the world. " (Gazette Newspapers)

Shinagawa: Why Asians Speak English
Asian American Studies Program's Larry Shinagawa: "Asian Americans that attain the highest levels of achievement -- in everything from education to income to housing -- are those APAs that exhibit bicultural attributes." (Asian Week)




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