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Even before Kal Penn walked onto the stage at Goldstein Auditorium Saturday night, shouts of "Kumar!" rippled through the 800-person audience.

Penn, the co-star of the "Harold and Kumar" movies, spoke about the portrayal of minorities in mass media today....

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Raj

posted 11/17/08 @ 3:44 PM EST

Unimpressive talk. Penn spent far too long on things that he didn't seem to realize were of minimal importance to Asian Americans when it comes to prejudice.

Surprisingly no one seemed to mind that he couldn't fully understand the issues facing newly landed Asian immigrants, when he is fully Americanized. Hard for people to see how he was discriminated against personally, as he offered no examples, and went instead into how Hollywood uses shallow stereoptypes to typecast minorities.

Sanjeev Kumar

posted 11/17/08 @ 10:39 PM EST

Kalpen spent too much time reading those letters. He should've talked about the main points of the letters. He also looked unprofessional by keeping on looking at his watch and drinking water every two seconds. I was also upset that he didn't give out autographs. When you have famous person comes to someplace, he should at least gives some autograph to his fans.

Tanush Sincar

posted 11/18/08 @ 2:11 AM EST

he totally should have done that.
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