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Freshmen Cinnamon MaryBeth Hodges '06 Venton Carlos Jones, Jr. '06 Stacy Colleen Reeves '06 David Wayne Thompson, Jr. '06 Crystal Nicole Y'Barbo '06 Sophomores Amy Elizabeth Binks '05 Anna Cates Hollier '05 Alfred Jason Huebinger '05 Lucy Huereca '05 Eric M. Parekh '05 Lauren Francis Rossman '05 Courtney Ann Wall '05 Rorey Marie Walsh '05 Matthew Gardner Wilkins '05 Frederick M. Woods '05 vv J€ V Juniors Katherine Elizabeth Bailey '04 Robin Elizabeth Cappel '04 Justin Jay Clark '04 Richard Craig Cronin '04 Andrew Russell Herreth '04 Katherine Jean Lemmon '04 Joseph Arthur Medina '04 Lyndon Earl Pryor '04 Rodney William Reed '04 Jason William Sherrieb '04 Cortney Elizabeth Smith '04 Shawna D'Ann Smith '04 Jonathan Alan Stever '04 Jeremy Britton Whitbeck '04 Joe J. Williams '04 Seniors Bryan Christopher Barton '02 Eric McGregor Bethea '03 Justin Paul Bond '03 John Erik Casares '03 Jason Scott Chaka '02 Kelly Leigh Coke '03 Elizabeth Faires Dacus '03 James William Daniel '03 Drew McKenzie Darsey '03 Sera Shannon Davis '02 Brittany Rene' Denton '03 Christopher Michael Duke '02 Rachelle Evette Gentry '02 Scott Lockwood Goble '03 Alexander Preston King '03 Brooks Frederick Landgraf '03 Alfred Spence Pennington '03 Marion Jean Phoummarath '02 Rex Lee Williams, Jr. '03 Whitley Casey Wolman '03 Graduate Students Yakut Gazi Prakash Krishnan HOUSTON The Association FORMER STUDENTS® OF !A/e, aW' Tice, AqqU^ f^eluKydcJ CLUB J ISLAM 101 Series Speaker: Ms. Dini Sunardi Muslim Students’ Association Monday, April 14, 2003 AGGIELlf WORLD THE BATTALIO THE BAT' No more Rung- Asian movie crosses a race boundai SI By Rebecca Louie KRT CAMPUS NEW YORK—If the stars of “Better Luck Tomorrow” want to make their own good fortune, they need to do it now. “If people don’t come out to see us this weekend, we may not be around for the procrastina tors,” says Roger Fan, one of the stars of the film about all- American Asian teens-turned- gangsters. It opens Friday. “I spent yesterday handing out postcards and buttons to peo ple in Times Square, and I’ve slapped our movie posters all over the city,” Fan said. After a pause, he adds: “You don’t really see Keanu Reeves on the street handing out things for 'The Matrix,’ do you?” In a cinematic landscape where Asian stars are mostly martial arts imports who karate- chop their way through action films, a gritty drama about Asian-American youths could be a tough sell to audiences unac customed to identifying with the community. So the team behind “Better Luck Tomorrow” has been hitting the pavement in big cities and small film festivals. “There is no support for Asian-American men in a socie ty that expects them to be the model minority,” says NaRhee Ahn, program director at the Asian-American Arts Alliance. “They get punished for that same stereotype—socially not adjust ed, not sexy, the guy who can’t get the girl.” “Better Luck Tomorrow” departs from the immigrant narrative of such movies as Director Justin Lin, left, and actor Roger Fan. advertise "Betterbl Tomorrow,” an independent movie about Asian-American youth. ! “The Joy Luck Club" (1993), putting its characters in the pressure-cooker of overachiev ing students in a California high school. “This isn’t to belittle (movies that just explore Asian- American) identity,” says Larry Jung, of the Coalition of Asian Pacifies in Entertainment. “But I want to see more range from Asian-Americans.” Asian-Americans make up 4.2 percent of the U.S. popula tion, according to the 2000 cen sus, but a Screen Actors Guild study from the same year shows that only 1.7 percent of all lead roles cast went to Asians/Pacific Islanders. “The characters of 'Better Luck Tomorrow’ are mindful of their heritage without being con sumed by it,” Jung says, “and, as a result, the film can explore other tensions more thcrught-pro- voking than race.” The four teenagers at the cen ter of “Better Luck Tomorrow” are perfectionist scholars by day. 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