Professor ELIZA NOH (Asian-American Studies, California State University, Fullerton): Among the Asian-American Community when I was growing up, you know, I would hear about people who were attempting or had attempted suicide.

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An assistant professor of Asian-American studies at California State University at Fullerton, Noh has read the sobering statistics from the Department of Health and Human Services: Asian-American women ages 15-24 have the highest suicide rate of women in any race or ethnic group in that age group.

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"Unlike the typical campaign stump speech, they are not trying to mobilize their respective bases, " said Gerhard Peters, co-director of the American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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The foundation is supporting documentary films, photo projects and, most ambitiously, cataloging, digitizing and making searchable online Mr. Strachwitz's collection of some 17, 000 Mexican-American and Mexican 78rpm records, at the University of California's Strachwitz Frontera Collection.

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"Up until then, the studios owned the artists and had unspoken agreements with celebrity magazines so they would tread lightly on people, " says Karen Steinheimer, a sociologist at the University of Southern California, and author of Celebrity Culture and the American Dream.

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"Many Latinos are still reluctant to vote for an African-American candidate, period, " says Jaime Regalado, a political science professor at California State University, Los Angeles.

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This year's survey (administered by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles) included nearly 350, 000 students at 665 American colleges and universities.

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He and Stan Glantz, director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, noted that tobacco companies' established relationship with African-American leadership organizations in decades past.

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