Asian Students Attacked At Indiana University

Eight Asian students at Indiana University were subjected to racial slurs and four were subsequently battered and robbed on early Sunday morning, according to the Journal Gazette.

The eight students were walking towards a dorm when three or four male African-Americans made the insulting comments. An argument ensued, resulting in an attack on two of the Asian students. One was sent to hospital with facial injuries but has since been released.

Fox 59 News reports that 3 percent of IU's student body is international, and that many Asian students live at Forest Quad -- where the attacks occurred.

Three members of the attacked group were robbed -- in total, the students lost an iPad, iPod and cell phone, reports the Indiana Daily Student.

Fox 59 reports that if the assailants were visiting IU students, those students will be subject to discipline from the university. Police are still investigating the case.

Watch a report from Fox 59 below.

 

Comments

[DanSc]

01:36 PM on 12/08/2010

So were Asian students attacked, or students attacked for being Asian?

[Laws4Sale]

11:04 AM on 11/03/2010

I blame Teanut Sharron Angle, she spread her ha.tred of Mexicans and tried to smooth it over by linking them to Asians. Twisted!

[Returners]

04:47 AM on 11/03/2010

No surprise asian americans have always been treated like second class citizens in the USA.

Always on the receiving end of racial violence, racial slurs shouted by students and teachers, requiring higher SAT scores while being the last ones hired and first ones fired. Kept systematically out of occupations in Hollywood

Just like the Japanese population on the USA, the korean americans are lining up to go back to Korea, the last year had record number of Koreans going back home and when China reaches a comfortable standard of living the chinese will move back too.

You reap what you sow

[purplet]

10:36 AM on 11/03/2010

- Asians are in the majority in many colleges- Young people in general are not racists- It was college students who protested in Virgina against repealing the anti discrimination ban for Homosexuals- It was the youth who protested Arizona's law-

[Returners]

12:39 PM on 11/03/2010

Step into a classroom or a school sometime

Count how many times you hear the word chink, ching chong and gook


http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1951044,00.html


Some people still can't look past his ethnicity. Everywhere he plays, Lin is the target of cruel taunts. "It's everything you can imagine," he says. "Racial slurs, racial jokes, all having to do with being Asian." Even at the Ivy League gyms? "I've heard it at most of the Ivies if not all of them," he says. Lin is reluctant to mention the specific nature of such insults, but according to Harvard teammate Oliver McNally, another Ivy League player called him a C word that rhymes with ink during a game last season. On Dec. 23, during Harvard's 86-70 loss to Georgetown in Washington, McNally says, one spectator yelled "Sweet-and-sour pork!" from the stands.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/01/college-admissions-race-politics-opinions-best-colleges-10-espenshade-radford.html

"To have the same chance of gaining admission as a black student with a SAT score of 1100, a Hispanic student otherwise equally matched in background characteristics would have to have 1230, a white student a 1410 and an Asian student a 1550."

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/Asian-Students-Under-Assault.html


“They don’t even know you,” says Chen, who barely spoke English when he emigrated from China to Philadelphia in January 2007. “They just hit because you’re Asian.”


[SangZe]

07:25 AM on 11/02/2010

Typical americans at their best.

[vquest]

02:11 AM on 11/02/2010

"If the assailants were visiting IU students, those students will be subject to discipline from the university".
I like that part. Hopefully those students who had these low lifes as guests will learn that in the bigger world beyond their hood some elements just do not make for great traveling companions.

[botwarble]

01:50 PM on 11/02/2010

I would not expect anything to happen to hosts of these suspects; one 18-year-old was arrested this morning. This university is indicative of the veil used to hide most illegal activity that goes on with respect to its student body. Rapes are reported nearly every weekend of a home football game, as was the case in calendar on the early Sunday morn when this happened (post Big 10 football game). Violence always escalates after football tailgating (uncontrolled alcohol; tailgating fields open for 8 to 10 hours; no ID checks), especially sexual violence, and little follow-up reporting is done by public entities with respect to these reports. There was also a rape reported not far from this site that same night/morning, and both locations are within less than a mile from the tailgate location. This university is very cautious, however, with its Asian student community ever since a white supremacist IU student during a multiple-state shooting spree shot and killed a Korean student in front of a Korean Methodist Church in 1999 near the campus. There are also far more Asian students, especially South Korean, attending Indiana University in Bloomington than there are African-American students.

[la vita e bella]

02:05 AM on 11/02/2010

I'm waiting to hear more to weigh in on this one. Something about this smells like the story of miss "a black woman splashed my face with acid, but really I did it myself!"

[ksc1984]

09:40 PM on 11/02/2010

What smells fishy, or seems questionable about the authenticity of this story? Based on the information provided, the students were indeed robbed and assaulted.

[jonrice]

06:36 PM on 11/01/2010

Just goes to show that racial violence hasn’t disappeared, lest we forget. A sad case indeed.

[goodmarina]

10:49 PM on 11/01/2010

racism exists within all walls of society

no one is exempt from bias either towards others ... or directed from others

if the story is true - it is not acceptable

[david c taylor]

06:27 PM on 11/01/2010

It was 8 against 3...that's embarrassing

[goodmarina]

10:51 PM on 11/01/2010

this is not the "fight club" -- this is real life where young people who have to be our future leaders, business owners, work force, parents, teachers, etc. are acting stupidly.

[Freevo]

12:52 AM on 11/02/2010

Accidental flag! My apologies GoodMarina. Already a fan.

[Freevo]

12:53 AM on 11/02/2010

Undo flag! Undo flag! Where's that button!? Sloppy me. Sorries.