UC Santa Cruz students arrested in alleged drug ring

Three sorority and three fraternity members were arrested for possession of over $100,000 worth of MDMA.



Daaaaaamn. Asians behaving badly... collegiate drug ring edition! Last week at the University of California Santa Cruz, three sorority and three fraternity members were arrested for allegedly a running a drug ring and possession of over $100,000 worth of the club drug MDMA.

Six UC Santa Cruz students arrested in alleged drug ring, affiliated with Greek organizations

The suspects were identified as Mariah Dremel, Benny Liu, Cesar Casil, Nathan Tieu, Hoai Nguyen and Cecilia Le, all students at UC Santa Cruz, and all affiliated with the Alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority or Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity. They were all arrested for possession of a controlled substance.

Dremel, Liu, Casil and Tieu are also suspected of conspiracy, according to police.

sorority scavenger hunt item: "hook up with three asians"

Growing up, living your life and just being Asian in America, you will inevitably have encounters, big and small, that smack you upside the head and remind you of a hard truth: you are different.

Well, hell, everybody's different. But the hard truth of these encounters -- whether it's a kid making "ching chong" eyes at you on the playground, or someone taking a baseball bat to your head -- is that there are those who perceive you as different. And that difference, to them, makes you something other than human.

In this piece for The Daily Pennsylvanian, graduate student Dephanie Jao describes a recent seemingly innocuous street encounter where she, as a person of Asian descent, was dehumanized: Hunting Asians.

Basically, a Drexel University sorority recently held some kind of scavenger hunt event where one of required items was to "hook up with three Asians." Yeah. So on a Sunday night, Dephanie unexpectedly had to deal with some assholes: